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id: jain-amicable-debate
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title: Anekantavada Multi-View Dialogue
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description: >-
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A Jain practice of dialogue grounded in anekantavada — the doctrine that
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truth has many aspects — in which disputants present and hold each
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other's views as partially true, rather than as wholly wrong. Rooted in
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Jain philosophy dating to ancient India, formalised in the
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syadvada method of seven-fold predication.
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source: Jain philosophical tradition / Mahavira
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source_url: https://www.jainworld.com/
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tags: [jain, anekantavada, dialogue, india, philosophy]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Present one's view
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description: >-
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Each disputant presents their view fully, without interruption. The
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other listens as if it may be true, not as if it is wrong.
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- headline: Acknowledge partial truth
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description: >-
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Each party acknowledges the partial truth in the other's view —
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"from one perspective, what you say is so." No view is held as the
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whole truth.
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- headline: Use syadvada predication
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description: >-
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Each proposition is considered from seven standpoints: in one way it
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is; in one way it is not; in one way it is and is not; in one way it
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is inexpressible; and combinations thereof. This surfaces the
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limits of each view.
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- headline: Hold the multi-view
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description: >-
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Rather than collapse to one view, the dialogue holds the multiple
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perspectives as each partially true. The resolution is not
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synthesis but coexistence.
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- headline: Act with humility
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description: >-
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Any action taken proceeds with the acknowledgment that the view it
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rests on is partial, not absolute. Dogmatism is the failure mode.
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outcome: >-
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A dialogue concludes with each view held as partially true, and action
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taken with the humility that no single view captures the whole.
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practice: >-
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The discipline is to genuinely hold the other's view as possibly true,
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not to perform it. If you cannot find the partial truth in the other's
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view, you have not yet understood it. |