Jain Philosophy and Modern Science

Author(s): Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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PHILOSOFPY & SCIENCE
must be measured by the scale of logic and reason behind a particular thing. It is at this stage the philosophy came into existence It is, therefore, wrong to believe that philosophy owes its source to superstitions and not to reason and logic. When people accepted the theories of those in whom they had implicit trust and started proving such theories with logic and reason, philosophy started becoming weaker This led to the emergence of different philosophies like Jainism, Buddhism, Sankhya, Naiyayika and Vaisheshika philosophies As a matter of fact all philosophies owe their origin to reason and logic But behind that reasoning there exists a faith towards the ideals worshipped by that individual If reason and logic were the only factors vidual If reason and logic were the only factors behind different philosophies then the ultimate end of every philosophy would have been an entire similarity, like mathematics where two and two always make four There, however, is one thing that cannot be denied and that is that philosophy has pondered over every subject right from the atom to the universe and that philosophy has stood the test of different schools of logic The conclusions arrived at through philosophy were not only the figments of imaginations worked out by idle minds
History of Science The history of science is entirely different to the history of philosophy Science has never believed in the honesty of any super human being It seems