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tolerance and equality. Multiview neither accepts exceptions nor authenticates the exact opposition, but it seeks equality and responsibility in a pluralistic society.
The many-sided view, therefore, is not necessarily irreconcilable, incompatible and opposed to each other. It is infact fecilitates to know more of the premise in its totality and thereby emerges as an agreeable truth. Only the ignorant or the blissful arrogant would deny the resemblance and compounds by self-serving generality. The preception of ekanta is starkly simple, it is incomplete, incomprehensible and exclusivist.
It suggests unchange, insular and permanent views. This fundamentalist mentality lacks tolerance, understanding and knowledge, whereas Anekantaväda is firmly based on rational intelligence with a meta-philosophical approach to the shrunken world and its community of peoples. Thus its uniqueness and application as a doctrine in the present multiethenic and multifaith environment is quite refreshing.
References:
A.N. Upadhya Jain Contributions to Indian Heritage Dr. J. Humar : Jainism and Mahatma Gandhi
Dr. Y.J. Padmarajaiah : Jaina Theories of Reality and knowledge.
तुलसी प्रज्ञा जुलाई-दिसम्बर, 2001
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