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Anekanta Philosophy of co-existence
understood then one will not feel a conflict between the two but experience a balanced relativity between them. Action is an intrinsic quality of both the sentient and the insentient. The action of the insentient can be intrinsic or motivated by others. The action of the sentient in addition to being intrinsic is also independent. An object moves at a certain pace along a certain route. It does not have the power of will or resolve and so it is not independent. Man is a sentient being. He is capable of desire, resolve and reflection and so he is capable of independent action. Dans Scott too described man's independence along these lines. He wrote that our independence is due to our resolve. Man, knowing full well about the path of dharma walks on the the path of adharma, this is an example of his independence.
The first step of progress is resolve and the second, effort. These two attributes develop greatly in man. This is why man is the prime player in the modern world of progress. He has created the traits of joy-sorrow, principles, imagination, logic and sentiments within his internal world. In the outer world he has created objects of necessities, comforts and luxuries. Man himself has created war and peace. Darwin established the idea that struggle is necessary for survival. This is temporal and universal. It is the prime cause of conflict among creatures. An echo of this is found in Indian thought also which says, "jeevo jeevasya jeevanam" (one creature becomes the stuff for another's life). Darwin saw the world through the perspective of struggle. There is an element of truth in this also. But it is not the whole truth.
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