Applied Philosophy Of Anekanta: 4.3 Elements of Anekānta in Western Philosophy and Post-Modern Philosophy

It is due to one-sided prejudiced mind set, one misunderstands others’ viewpoints and behaves otherwise. In the world of western philosophy, there occurred a paradigm shift from philosophizing the metaphysical concepts and epistemological aspects to the new horizon of problem of communication. The western Pre-greek philosophers, who were in search of the ultimate stuff from which this world of being originated, then they thought about one to many substances, then Greek philosophers began to determine their nature and features. In the meadiveal period, the government was dominated by Pope and no independence of thought was allowed and Galilieo was burnt alive for expressing his novel thought. In  the modern period, due to development in science and mathematics, a new renaissance came into being and the epistemic view of Realist and Idealist schools of thinking became the central issue of the philosophy. After a long debate between the two schools of thoughts, it was ultimately reconciled by Immanuel Kant that, neither the realist nor the idealist stand point will suffice to solve the problems of the epistemic world and the ethical world and he reconciled it by declaring that ‘concepts without precepts are blind and precepts without concepts are empty’.