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A Comparative Study
OF
The Indian Science of Thought
FROM
The Jaina Standpoint.
1. Jnana.
PHILOSOPHY, as conceived in India, was not a
system of dry rationalism or of impatient positivism, but was always a system of rationalistic positivism or of positivistic rationalism. Man was conceived as a being in bondage and the world, an abode of misery and pain; each of the philosophical systems of India started with the problem of Final Emancipation. All the rationalism of the systems of Indian philosophy is thus permeated and animated by the never-forgotten practical aim,-How to emancipate Man.
