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Anekāntavāda: a Strategy for conflict Resolution ...
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understand a problem in a synthetic manner (in its nature and its appearance) and apply all possible means to cure the ills.
This paper deals with 'Anekāntavāda - a strategy for conflict, resolutions and integral cosmic development'. To an economic problem solutions are attempted from various other disciplines too, similarly to a problem in communications in politics, in environment, in Religion, etc. several solutions are offered from multiple angles. I. Introducing Anekāntavāda: What it means?
What it implies?
What it demands? a. Anekäntavāda means:
Reality is complex. It can be known in its manifoldness. Truth is many-sided, many-eyed, hence non-attachment to personal truth. Affirmation of a probability of diverse attribute in an entity. As a phenomenon of pluralism, it is a positive pluralism. Synthetic approach to life and reality. It is mental construct of Non-violence. b. Anekāntavāda implies:
Predications are not valid absolutely - all are relative truths. Hence the necessity to combine thought process from different angles and dimensions of life. g. Various disciplines
Various Ideologies/approaches Various views, policies etc.
They could be universal or/and particulars autonomous or/and non-autonomous, opposed or/and non-opposed, spiritual and nonspiritual etc. C. Anekāntavāda-objective and demands:
It stretches out to either view, persons etc. It presupposes a state beyond Räga and Dveșa or attachment and aversion. It positively demands a wider outlook on life and reality. It positively demands critical understanding of life and reality. II. The fact of Pluralism at different levels: At the Economic Level -The rich and the poor (persons & countries)
-Economic ideologies from liberal capitalism to Marxist socialism passing
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