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The metaphysics of paradox: Jainism, absolute relativity, and religious pluralism

Part of the Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical series
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Much of the violence between members of different faith communities is the result of black/white, either/or, binary frameworks.

To claim that a religion is true is to imply that another religion is false.

Hence, intolerance becomes the preferred mode of engagement for many religious adherents.

On the other hand, to collapse into a relativism by which anything goes, undermines one's ability to distinguish between true and false, right and wrong, better and worse, in any universal sense.

If society is to overcome intolerance while refusing to justify rape and murder as acceptable, if it is able to move toward a more peaceful and just way of living together, it needs an adequate way to stand between absolutism and relativism - it needs a theory of religious pluralism.

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Lexington Books
1498563937 / 9781498563932
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201.5
15/09/2018
English
231 pages
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