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CHAPTER XXVII. FROM METAPHYSICS TO ETHICS. How does Theory determine the Practice-the Jain Ethical Speculation-How it is determined and based on their Metaphysical Speculation - A Contrast between Buddhistic and Jain Morality-the Jain Con. ception of the Summum Bonum. . To man, his own inner nature, like the
outernature which surrounds him, is at first a The man as chaos to be organised into cosmos. As his inand a moral tellectual interest consists in subduing to the being:
order and system of the world of verities, surrounding him, the varied mass of presenta tions which incessantly pour in upon him, so as a moral being, his ethical interest lies in bringing the claimant and jarring impulses, propensities and other elements in conformity with the order and system of the rational life. As the business of a theoretical thinker, confined only to his own interest, is to make the world orderly enough as to be fit for habitation, so the business of the moral man, leaving out of account the theoretical and other interests, is to establish order,
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