Freitag, 13. Januar 2023, 15:15 - 16:45 iCal

Contradiction and Common Sense

in Haribhadrasūri’s Anekāntajayapatākā

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Public lecture by Anil Mundra, Department of Religion, Rutgers University

Seminarraum 1 des Instituts für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
Universitätscampus, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.7, 1090 Wien

Vortrag


This guest lecture will be streamed online. For online participation please use the link:

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The basic thesis of the Śvetāmbara Haribhadrasūri’s Anekāntajayapatākā (Victory Flag of Non-One-Sidedness, c. 8th century C.E.) is that any real object (vastu) possesses contrary pro-perties: existence and non-existence, permanence and impermanence, universality and particularity, and so on. It is unsurprising, then, that both classical detractors and well-wishing modern proponents of the Jain philosophy of non-one-sidedness have often considered this philosophical position to flirt with (or forthrightly embrace) paradox and contradiction (virodha).

However, as it will be shown in this talk, Haribhadra’s articulation of non-one-sidedness insists not only on non-contradiction but furthermore common sense (prasiddhatva) as regulative of philosophical justification. Employing a canonical hermeneutical method of analytical standpoints (nikṣepavāda), Haribhadra posits a theory of the compossibility of contraries with which he thinks almost anyone should be able to agree.

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Anil Mundra is Alka Siddhartha Dalal Postdoctoral Fellow in the study of Jainism. After having received his PhD from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in 2022, he now teaches at the Department of Religion at Rutgers.

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Kontakt

Judith Starecek
Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde in Kooperation mit der Indischen Botschaft, Wien
4277 43502
judith.starecek@univie.ac.at