Title
Jain Philosophy
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Title
The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy
Publication Date
9-2-2011
Abstract
Jainism shares the soteriological orientation of the Vedic systems and Buddhism, thereby blurring, as these systems do, the line drawn in the West between "philosophy" and "religion." This article focuses on those dimensions of Jainism of most interest to philosophers in the West-ontology, epistemology, logic, linguistics, and ethics-setting aside such dimensions as ascetic practice, meditation, and ritual activity, though with the understanding that these "religious" dimensions of the tradition are of vital importance to the Jains themselves, and important constituents of the total environment in which Jain philosophical reflection has occurred.
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195328998.003.0016
ISBN
9780199897490,9780195328998
Recommended Citation
Long, Jeffery D., "Jain Philosophy" (2011). Faculty Publications. 1272.
https://jayscholar.etown.edu/facpubharvest/1272
