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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Syādvāda and Judicial Process
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which requires the hearing of both the sides also, requires the consideration of all available aspects before taking the final judgement. Thus both these principles unconsciously implement the doctrine of 'Syādvāda'. As held in numerous judicial pronouncements, these principles constitute the ‘Essence of Justice and must therefore be observed by one whose duty is to act judicially."
In the field of philosophy the doctrine of Syādvāda seeks to achieve the synthesis of different theories and emphasises that if we want to have a proper judgement about a thing, we have to bear in mind the nature of its substratum as well as its changing modes. Evaluation of evidence in civil and criminal jurisprudence is also supposed to be made having due regard not only to the central problem which forms its substratum but also to the changing modes and perspectives in which the said problem is aspected by different witnesses who furnish the said evidence.
5. Syādvāda - A Comprehensive Synthesis:
The importance of this comprehensive synthesis of Syādvāda and Anekāntavāda in day today life is immense in as much as these doctrines supply a rational unification and synthesis of the manifold and rejects the assertions of bare absolutes. Speaking about his personal experience, Gandhiji said in 1926:5
“It has been my experience that I am always true (correct) from my point of view, and often wrong the point of view of my honest critics. I know we are both right from our respective points of view.” He further continues: I very much like doctrine of manyness of reality. It is this doctrine that has taught me to judge a Musalman from his standpoint and a Christian from his, The German philosopher Kant has expressed the same thing when he observed "Formerly I viewed human common sense only from the stand point of my own; now I put myself into the position of another's reason out side my self, and observe my judgements, together with their most secret causes form the point of view of others.