Theory of Atom in Jaina Philosophy

SR No.: 011108
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jethalal S Zaveri, Mahendramuni
Publisher: Agam and Sahitya Prakashan
Publication Year: 1975
Total Pages: 159
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 6 MB

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION, 3 cannot by itself unlock the mystery of ultimate reality and bring about the final consummation"? 3“ Modern science has made tremendous progress during the last hundred years Few people have been more publicly admired than scientists, engineers and technologists Together they discovered the secrets of the microcosm and perfected the ways of controlling and tapping colossal stores of nuclear energy, they probed the vast spaces of the universe and pried into the mysteries of the macrocosm, discovered the mechanisms of heredity and compounded the miracle of modern medicine With utmost daring and immense resourcefulness, they capped their achievements by landing man on the moon to gather first hand knowledge of the earth's nearest celestial body
"Ironically this very age of unprecedented scientific progress has also become the dawn of a new age of doubts, regarding the future benefits of bold new scientific ventures, to the human race because technological advances seem to accompany environmental ravages On the philosophical level, there is a new mood of scepticism, about the absolute objectivity and utter rationality of the scientific methods Says Harvard Biologist-Historian EI Mendelsohn 'Science as we know it has outlived its usefulness There is a new fascination with the mystical and even irrational In the recent years there is a loud and insistent chorus for antiscience Declares Richard H Bube, a professor of materials science and electrical engineering at Stanford 'One of the most pernicvous falsehoods ever to be almost universally accepted is that the scientific method is the only reliable 2 From preface 10 Jain Philosophy of Non-absolutism by Prof Dr Satkan Mookenee 3 Time (Weekly Magazine)