Jain Darshan aur Sanskruti Parishad

SR No.: 010092
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Banthia
Publisher: Mohanlal Banthiya
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 263
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 9 MB

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consciousness is not very clear to the materialists but their acceptance of the existence of free and creative consciousness points to the inherent inner working of their own consciousness, though unconsciously, towards the truth about copsciousucss. By postulating somc rudimentary form of consciousness even for the ultimate particles of matter, involves a sort of dualism. For consciousness is something peculiarly different from the other fundamental properties attributed to matter. Consciousness is fundamentally different from matter, nay, a contradiction of matter. Matter is Anti-Consciousness.
We have now to understand the characteristics of Matter. Dialectics is the best and the greatest of all the conclusions arrived by natural science. We are indebted to Marx for extending the dialects of nature to the domains of humanistic sciences. Marxisim or communism, as we today understand it, is one single system constituted of the Marxist Economism, the Morganic Sociology and the Engelic Philosophy, Science is the very basis of Engelic Philosophy. The processes of Nature are dialectical. The basis of the dialectics of nature is law of the positive and the negative. The evolution in nature reflects itself in the evolution of a concept, or of a conceptional relation (positive and negative, cause and effect, substance and accidency) in the history of thought.2 Positiveness and negation are the two fundamentals of the law of evolution. These two concepts of Physics are called North and South respectively in geography.
This proposition leads us to the very heart of the phenomenon of science. Science deals with matter. Matter is apimate and inanimate. Scientific account of universe appears clearest and most convincing when it deals with Ioanimate Matter. When we come to the sciences dealing with life, the state of affairs is less satisfactory. Many of the fundamental questions bave not been met.& When science talks of matter,
1. J.W.N. Sullivan ; op. cit ; Page 107 2. F. Engels ; op. cit ; Pages 287, 295 (D.N.) 3. J.W.N. Sullivan ; op. cit ; Pages 125