Jainism Precepts and Practice

Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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reasoning in lus oni iug.ci polemics with the sophists of his ti ne, putting them betiveen the horns of loro definite alternatives. But in modern philosophy of the West, it was Kant who rcrival: 12 has exposing the contradictions involvell the fundamental assumptions of dognizuic philosoplay and in the popular conceptions at Soul, Woıld and God. But it was left !o Hegel to give a new meaning to dialectic and to interpret it in a new light altogether For with Hegel, Being contains within itself oppositions and contradictions Every thought, every reality is but a mixture of Being and non-Being Dialectic with Hegel, therefore, is equivalent to Self-devolopment or unfoldment, and the world-process itself is a process of dialectic, of antithisis and synthesis, making differences serve as means to higher unities. The legitimate out-come of working, out the Hegelian interpretation of the world-process as shown in his dialectica, is the pronouncement of the eternity of the world-process And with it the soul is also declared to be in the never-ending process of higher and higher evolution without any ultimate rest or quiscent anywhere.
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