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Demystifying Anekāntavāda

Course Number: 2005

Demystifying Anekāntavāda

Course Delivery:

Self-Paced Online Learning

Length: 6 hours Self-Study (Professor available by appointment in office hours)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Explore the history, philosophies, and many meanings of the popular Jain concept known as “anekāntavāda”. Begin by exploring anekāntavāda’s rich history and understand why this term means much more than just “intellectual ahiṃsā”. Next, appreciate the philosophical complexity of anekāntavāda and its variant applications through nayavāda, syādvāda, saptabhaṅgī, and nikṣepa.

Finally, with this philosophy and history in mind, bring your fresh and deeper understanding of anekāntavāda into the present and apply it to one of many important questions of contemporary society.

Enroll now, course will be available on February 11, 2023