Book Title: Applied Philosophy of Anekanta
Author(s): Shashiprajna Samni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati Institute

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________________ four decades, as evidenced by the fact that few major figures in contemporary philosophy treat it as a primary research area like Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin, Alfred Tarski, and W.V.O. Quine and so on. According to the Derridean Deconstruction, context is not fixed. He says, context is never absolutely determinable or the formation of context is never final and saturated. All these views will be discussed in comparison with the Jaina view of nayavāda, syādvāda and niksepa: How this concept coincides with the views of Western contemporary philosophy and Postmodern thinkers is highlighted in brief from the anekāntic perspective. In a comparative view of multiplicity-in-unity, there are two approaches possible, viz. to see the commonalities or to see the differences. In a judicious view, both are valuable and helpful. For our analysis, we shall undertake the former standpoint. 4.7 Overlapping Between Anekānta Philosophy and Western Continental Philosophers' Perspective The non-relative one sided view has created many problems in the field of philosophical thought. Anekānta provides a solution to those problems from the point of view of inter-cultural understanding. Under the umbrella of anekānta, all antagonists, one-sided view-holders come and sit together on one platform breaking the system barrier which divides the entire human race. I have clearly highlighted, the doctrine of anekānta as an understanding, which urges individuals to study the different religions, cultures, customs, rituals, cults, schools of thought and trace out the underlying points of agreements and disagreements, so that one can have dialogue from the point of view of agreements rather than remain in watertight compartment of thoughts. So an endeavour is made to find out the elements of anekānta in philosophical views of Husserl, Wittgenstein, Jean Paul Sartre, Jacque Derrida and to interpret it 102

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