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Jaina Perspective in Philosophy and Religion
knowledge.1 Doctrines of the Pramapas, ranging from one (Carvaka ) to eight2, I am sure, determine to a great extent the nature of philosophy. So an epistemological reorientation will influence metaphysical grounding, which in turn will determine our socio-ethico-political views. 3
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Great logical inter-relations among all social and sociological studies prove that one follows as the reductio-ad-absurdum from the other. Thus we see that any solution can ultimately be achieved through knowledge free from confusion and prejudices. Each addition to knowledge is in sober truth one step further to the goal of all effort, the right understanding of the whole of things as they are in their inmost nature.5 But the main difficulty is to blend the divergent current of thought and in particular the methods of philosophy and science.
With this end in view we put before you an old wine in a new bottole-The relative. Jaina Theory of Judgement namely Syadvada as it expresses one aspect of reality. Syadvada is composed of two words-Syats and vada. Syat may mean perhaps10, some how11, may be12, in some respect13
1. S. C. Chatterjee : Problems of Philosophy, p. 3. 2. Dr. Kuppaswāmī Śastrī : A Primer of Indian Logic, p. 40. 3. L. T. Hobhouse: Theory of Knowledge.
4. Ibid.
5. lbid.
6. Ibid.
7. D. M. Datta : Indian Philosophy, p. 90.
8. ' स्यात्प्रधानो वादः स्याद्वाद :', Jaina Darśana Sara by Chainsukha Das, p. 456.
9. ata fazra, Ibid.
10. S. Radhakrishnan : History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. I, p. 302.
11. Ibid; D. M. Datta : Indian Philosophy, p. 90. 12. D. M. Datta: Ibid, p. 90.
13. lbid, p. 92.
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