RE: Jainism
July 17, 2020 at 6:03 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2020 at 6:03 pm by Belacqua.)
(July 17, 2020 at 1:37 pm)ModusPonens1 Wrote: I meant to say "Dialetheism".
I can't tell from the part you quote whether the Jain version ends up agreeing with Christian dialetheism.
As you know, the Christian version comes from Neoplatonism, and got a big boost due to Nicholas of Cusa's work on infinity. William Blake is all about dialetheism.
For Christians, statements which seem opposed from a human perspective are both true in the infinity of God. Being infinite, God excludes nothing. (This was before Cantor's work on infinity.)
The Jains apparently lay out a system which shows what is true according to various viewpoints. But do they think that in the end all of these viewpoints are resolved in God? Or do they think that some of the viewpoints are just wrong? I doubt if they're postmodernists, who think that all truth is simply a matter of perspective.
