Structure and Functions of Soul in Jainism

Author(s): S C Jain
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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4: The Soul and Consciousness
98-142 Introduction
98 Consciousness and upayoga
99 Identity of consciousness Controversy regarding conation and knowledge
102 Controversy of successive and simultaneous
occurrence of conation and knowledge 105 Brahmadeva's solution of the controversy 107 Meaning of conation
110 Conation and knowledge as attributes of the soul
113 The problem of objectless consciousness 115 Meaning of knowledge
116 Sensum theory of knowledge and its criticism
119 The three termed theory of perception 121 Mati and śruta types of knowledge
123 Pratyaksa or the direct type of knowledge 127 Avadhi and manaḥparyaya types of direct knowledge
128 Kevalajñāna or the perfect knowledge 133 Arguments against omniscience and their refutation
136 Self consciousness
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5: Structure of the Soul and Extension 143-154 Forms of the soul's existence
143 Meaning of extension
143 Extension in case of attributes
145 Extension and the mental structure of the purposivist school of psychology
146 Criticism of the above view
146 Nyāya, Sārkhya and Vedānta on the soul's extension and their criticism
147 Some objections against the Jaina view of the soul's extension
150 Conception of pradeśas in the soul
153 Conclusion
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