Impact of Jainistic Perception on Society

Society and its Components N L. Jain - The term 'Human Society' is defined as everchanging complex and awaring system consisting of individuals, communities and institutions mutually interesting and reciprocating a web of social relationship and organised on the basis of similarity of culture, ideology and behaviour etc for their overall welfare and stability Gupta

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एन. एल. जैन जैन धर्म को समाजशास्त्रीय मानववाद बताते हैं और उसे तीन त्रिकों में समेटते हैं — अहिंसा, अनेकान्त, अपरिग्रह; श्रम, स्वावलम्बन, समता; तथा रत्नत्रय। वे स्त्री की स्थिति, जाति, शाकाहार, पर्यावरण और दर्शन पर इनका प्रभाव देखते हैं; मूलतः समाजपरक यह आचार मध्यकाल में व्यक्तिपरक हो गया। N. L. Jain presents Jainism as sociological humanism condensed into three triads: non-violence, non-absolutism, non-possession; sweating, self-support, sameness; the three jewels. He traces their bearing on women's status, caste, vegetarianism, ecology and philosophy, and holds that the tradition's socialistic ethic turned individualistic in medieval times.

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