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Jainism Lecture – Jeffery Long: “Relativity Within and Without: Anekāntavāda in the Context of Jain Practice and its Implications for the Philosophy of Religion” (in person and on Zoom)

  • Jainism Lecture – Jeffery Long: “Relativity Within and Without: Anekāntavāda in the Context of Jain Practice and its Implications for the Philosophy of Religion” (in person and on Zoom)
  • Event Date: March 30, 2023
  • Event Start Time: 4:30 PM
  • Event End Time: 6:00 PM
  • Event Type: Lecture
  • Event Location: Alexander Library 169 College Ave Lecture Hall on the 4th Floor

Relativity Within and Without: Anekāntavāda in the Context of Jain Practice and its Implications for the Philosophy of Religion

Jeffery Long

Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies School of Arts and Humanities, Elizabethtown College

Abstract:

In this presentation, Dr. Jeffery Long will discuss a set of philosophical conceptions from the Jain tradition of India and explore the relevance of these concepts to contemporary issues in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science.

This presentation will first give an overview of anekāntavāda, the Jain doctrine of the complexity of existence, along with its epistemological and hermeneutical corollaries: nayavāda (the doctrine of perspectives) and syādvāda (the doctrine of conditional predication). These doctrines will be examined within the context of Jain thought and practice. Then their implications for the contemporary philosophy of religion will be explored,