Multidimensional Application of Anekantavada

SR No.: 014009
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sagarmal Jain, Shreeprakash Pandey, Bhagchandra Jain Bhaskar
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 552
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 9 MB

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Multi-dimensional Application of Anekāntavāda
that successful adaptations can occur only when the level of stimulation is neither too low nor too high. So Professor D.E. Berlyne of the University of Toronto supports: The Central nervous system of a higher animal is designed to cope with environments that produce a certain rate of stimulation....... It will not perform at its best in an environment that overstresses or overloads it. "Mental deterioration often began with fatigue, followed by confusion and nervous irritability and emotional exhaustion. There is "bombardment of the senses”, “information overload", "decision stress”, confusion and uncertainty. The pathology neither be traced to political doctrine nor mystical core of despair or in science, technology or social change but in uncontrolled, non-selective nature of plunge into the future.
Socio-cultural Dimension: After the family situation, there come the influences of neighbourhood, community, school, Church, age mates and so on. There is social character of our thought. Just as there is a social character, there is also a 'social unconscious'. In the German Ideology Marx wrote that "not consciousness determines life but life determines consciousness. It is the social existence that determines consciousness. Rosa Luxembourg wrote in psychoanalytic terminology “The unconscious comes before the conscious” The consciousness of the members of the elite is a product of their social existences. The relation between social character and social structure is never static since both elements in this relationship are never ending processes. As change in either factor means a change in both”
Holistic Approach: Holistic assessment obviously reveals a great deal about a person. This may be developed into an extraordinary instrument for accomplishing three important purposes simultaneously: (1) the selection of the most suitable persons for important jobs (2) the advancement of our understanding of personality, and (3) the adequate training of clinical psychologists and psychiatrists.
Our clinging to the absolutistia and mechanised world-view of Newton and Socrates has brought us perilously close to destruction. Fritz of Capra in his Book "The Turning Point"shows these ideas are now absolute. Like him, we should also look forward to a new vision more consistent with the findings of modern physics. Capra's The Tao