Book Title: Society Epistemology And Logic In Indian Tradition
Author(s): Dharmchand Jain
Publisher: Prakrit Bharati Academy

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________________ Society, Epistemology and Logic in Indian Tradition curriculum taught at various institutes. Education has a very significant role in developing and building the mental understanding of a human being. If a person is lacking spiritual and moral values in education, then, conflicts among the people arise more frequently. For maintaining peace, harmony and mutual cooperation with positive attitude towards all human beings and the other living beings of the world, spiritual and moral values must be included in the world education. A person faces conflicts in his own life due his mismanagement of thought process and misunderstanding about the reality and priority order of the works to be done. In this respect, proper education with spiritual and moral values can help. to 178 Jain religion and philosophy has many tenets for development of right understanding and deciding the right conduct to avoid conflicts in the minds of the people. A few of them are- non-absolutism, non-violence, tolerance, forgiveness, truthfulness, honesty, celibacy, limiting the possessions, theory of karma etc. All of these provide vision and can change the mentality of a person to remove the conflict. These can also help in bringing peace, harmony and solutions to many man-made problems. Vision of Anekāntavāda And Nayavāda Jaina philosophy has given us a thought of nonabsolutism i.e. anekāntavāda which establishes unity in diversities and harmony among the people of different ideologies. It gives an idea to honour others ideology. In the world, reality is one and the same, but the philosophers view it from different visions and mention the truth in different

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