Account of Jainism

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An Account of
Karman allows room for Freedom of will. The pantheistic systems of the east are charged with being unmoral in tendency in as far as they make the human a part and parcel of the divine soul. The essential unity of the two is rightly considered to be a deathblow to moral feeling. If the part is what the whole has made it, there is no responsibility for wrong or credit for right. It is not however clear, how Christian morality which asserts that the human soul is the creation of God, can " answer nay' to the same charge, although its necessity is more indirect than that of Adwaitism. If the God is the father of all we have, if he is the ultimate authority of our moral intuitions, if his guarantee it is that makes the ethical Ought a categorical imperative, why is not the evil that makes us fall away from the path marked out for the righteous and that made Eve taste the fruit of knowledge why is that evil not ascribed
to the same source of the universe, the source
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