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- Title
'INTELLECTUAL AHIMSA' REVISITED: JAIN TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE OF OTHERS.
- Authors
Cort, John E.
- Abstract
It has been widely proposed that the Jain logical methods of linguistic analysis collectively known as anekantavada (manypointedness) are an extension of the Jain ethical imperative of ahimsa (non-harm) into philosophy as a form of intellectual tolerance and relativity--described by several scholars as "intellectual ahimsa"--whose genealogy and development over the past sixty-five years are given in detail. It is shown how Jains used anekantavada to expose the relative truth of non-Jain metaphysics, while arguing that only Jain metaphysics, which alone is based on the omniscience (kevala-jnana) of the Jain, contains absolute truth (samyag-jnana). Examples are given of Jain intolerance of others, based on nonphilosophical literacy and historical evidence, before returning to the issue of Jain tolerance for and curiosity about non-Jain philosophical positions, in an attempt to ground future discussions of Jain tolerance and intolerance on a fuller range of Jain data and not on ideological formulations inadequately grounded in historical analysis.
- Subjects
JAINISM; LANGUAGE &; logic; AHIMSA; JAINA philosophy
- Publication
Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy, 2000, Vol 50, Issue 3, p324
- ISSN
0031-8221
- Publication type
Article