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undertake this topic and highlight the philosophy of anekānta as a way of hermeneutic interpretation and as the best remedy for the conflict resolution that can open the scope for the Intercultural dialogue in the age of clash of civilization and culture. The inter-culturality is based on the strong foundation of the maxim that, we meet to differ and differ to meet. So an endeavour is made to have a comparative study of the postmodern philosophy with the philosophy of anekānta. This would be the new way of interpreting anekāta and its relevance in solving the problems of language philosophy and in achieving the goal of successful communication.
Moreover some scholars claim that anekānta closes the door to any philosophical discourse by accepting everything contrary or contradictory. It is to eliminate the misconception regarding the theory of anekānta that, it is merely a synthesis of all the other philosophical systems and has nothing to contribute anything new to the world of philosophy in itself. It should rather be said in reply that the anekāntavāda along with the nayavāda and syadvād gives us room for dialectic of discourse and an existential view of the live world. In this work efforts will be made to establish that anekānta theory is actually a door opener to an unbiased vision, which is a problem solving antidote and to explore the elements of anekāntic thinking in western post-modern philosophy for inter-cultural dialogue.
This research book is a section-I of my Ph.D. thesis. I have made a humble effort to bring in special insight to the applied aspect of Jain Metaphysics and Jain epistemology independently, which is the very foundation of the philosophy of anekānt. Moreover no independent exhaustive research has been undertaken on this topic so far. So most compelling reason to publish this book is to widen the horizon of social
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