Book Title: Jainism Precepts and Practice
Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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________________ lute 15 the revealing itself in the Particulars AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. expression of the ultimate Unity. In our philosophy, the ordinary disjunction of feitheror falls to the ground. The two aspects of one truth do not exclude each other. The concrete whole is the abstract which is one in the Many and Many as grounded in the One The Absolute is the Universal This The Abso Universal is not the abstract Universal of the ...ersal formal logic but the cɔncrete Universal The absolute expresses itself in A, but not limited to A A is the particularisation of the Universal Hence the Universal goes beyond A, to B, to C and so A, B, C, D are immanently and vitally connected with one another The Universal comes out of Itself and particularises Itself in the particular objects of the world system and which, therefore, is vitally and essentially and immanently connected with one another constituting the world system The Universal of the Jains does not fight shy of the Particulars of the world—the categories of thought and being --like the Universal of the formal logic; but reveals itself in the particulars of the world

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