Jain Philosophy

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Jain Philosophy

• Non-Violence is the Supreme Virtue

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Foundation Definition

• Jains
• Followers of Jinas, omniscients
• Revelation not by divinity but by severe penance
• No Creator God, Karma destines creatures
• Diverse practitioners
• Mostly Business Community least violent
  professions, no agriculture, no military etc.
• With Hindus in Indian constitution and the
  Marriage Act.
• Rshabha (1st)
• Founder of socio-economic institutions
• Mahavira (24th)
• Last Jina (Tirthankara), contemporary to the
  Buddha

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Philosophy of Manifold Aspects

• Anekantavada
• Reality of Plurality Plurality of Realities
• Soul (eternal and changing) leads to multifold
  aspects of the reality
• Intellectual non-violence No one extreme
  position about the reality, instead sevenfold
  analysis
• Syadavada

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Seven Nayas

• Naigama General description
• Samgraha Categorical description
• Vyavahara Specific description
• Rjusutra Time-Space based description
• Shabda Verbal (Grammatical) description
• Samabhirudha - Etymological description
• Evambhuta Functional description
• Anekanta (Many Ended Truth)
• 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Truth

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Syadavada (Conditional Assertion)

• Positive Attribution ()
• Syat (FACP), the table exists
• Negative Attribution (-)
• Syat (FACP), the table does not exist
• Positive Negative Attributions ( )
• Syat (FACP), The table exists and from another
  perspective it does not exist
• Inexpressibility (0)
• Syat (FACP), the nature of the table is
  inexpressible
• Positive Attributions Inexpressibility (0)
• Syat (FACP), the table exists and from another
  perspective, the nature of the table is
  inexpressible
• Negative Attributions Inexpressibility (-0)
• Syat (FACP), table does not exist and from
  another perspective, the nature of the table is
  inexpressible
• Positive Negative Attributions and
  Inexpressibility ( 0 )
• Syat (FACP), table exists, from another
  perspective, the table does not exist and from
  the third perspective, the nature of the table is
  inexpressible
• FACP From A Certain Perspective