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CHAPTER XXVIII
THE CONCEPTION OF VIRTUE AND VICE.
Virtue and vice--distinctive principle between them Human conduct is essentially Teleological- Moksha 19 the Highest End of life and activity-Contrast between the Eastern and Western conception of Vice and Virtue Virtue. Vice and Karma-causality The problem of evil.
Before giving a detailed list of the manifold virtues aud vices, as has been enumerated by various Jain philosophers, we think it necessary, for a philosophical tive principle
The distinc.
between virtue and vice.
treatment, to enter into the principles on which this distinction rests or the principles from which we may logically deduce them. A mere survey of the virtues and vices as given, in the list, (vide infra) won't help us much in the way of entering into the philosophy of the thing or understanding the rationale of such distinction.
To enter into our subject-matter therefore, we first draw the attention of our readers to the fact, that in opposition to the philosophy of the West, we find even here, first, a teleo
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