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Syādvāda and Judicial Process
T. U. Mehta
1. Complex Reality and Fragmentary Knowledge
"He alone, “says Rudolph Sohm',"can claim to have obtained a real vision of law, of justice and injustice, to whom life has revealed itself in its fullness. It is, of course, true of jurisprudence, as it is of other sciences, that the knowledge it commands is, and will remain, fragmentary. But it has a lofty end in view, to which it must strive with unremitting endeavour to approach as nearly as may be.""
If the knowledge which jurisprudence commands is fragmentary, being the knowledge of life which has not yet revealed itself 'in its fullness', it is only the theories of Anekāntavāda and Syādvāda which can lead one nearer to the lofty aim of all jurisprudence which seeks to render complete Justice in human relationship.”
Life is complex, and the problems of life can be viewed from many aspects. Truth of reality is still more complex and can be viewed from a variety of standpoints. However the apprehension of an ordinary human being is partial and hence, valid only from a particular point of view which cannot give a correct or even a nearly correct comprehension of the whole. Complex reality has not only an infinite number of qualities, but also an equal number of relations. A comprehensive study of all these qualities and relations is not possible if our approach to a problem is fragmented and partial. Apart from this, we have also to take into account the subjective approach of different viewers of the problems in question, and the circumstances under which these problems are viewed.
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