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Selected Jain arguments address living beings, nonviolence and partial standpoints. Keep their liberating purpose in view, along with the limits of each claim.
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Guided course · Module 3 · Lesson 8
Nonviolence and partial perspectives
Jain teaching connects nonviolence with the living beings around us and with karmic bondage. Its idea of partial standpoints raises a further question: how can a partial view reveal something true without making every opinion equally sound?