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

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________________ relationship during IInd world war by Nazis led by Hitler claimed that only Germans have pure blue blood. All the rest are like animals, so let us kill and make the world of Germans. Due to this one-dimensional perspective lakhs of Jews were killed in concentration camp. Even the inhuman behaviour with black people in the west by the white people was really cruel. The whites didn't consider blacks as one amongst them in present United States. They are deprived from certain privileges of the country, certain professions etc. The kids of black people were not admitted in the convent schools where white people's kids studied. Although civil rights movement occurred against their discrimination, still a kind of segregation in sitting arrangements of buses, washrooms, restaurants, schools, market places, etc., is prevailing. Moreover white people community stay in particular area and rich black people live in highly crowded area, they don't stay together. Even policemen too misbehave with black people. A man who says that he is a machine is ‘depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon. A man who says, that Negroes are an inferior race may be widely respected. A man who says, his whiteness is a form of cancer is certifiable. In short, in the context of present pervasive thinking, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.' All these are because of difference of skin colour and only change of perspective can do away this problem. So to be recognized as a human it require anything but only love, affection, compassion for all human brothers and feeling for sufferings of others. 5.19 Judicial System and Anekānta This exhaustive philosophy is reflected not only in philosophical deliberations or religious castism; but also in many facets of our social life. In our judicial system, in which lies the core of human dignity in society, the greatest R.D. Laing. The Divided Self. Preface to the Pelican Edition, 1965, p. 111. ( 165

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