Postmodern Dialogue Secularists v/s Religionists

Jaleel Ahsan Zarger; Tariq Ahmad Shah

doi:10.22161/jhed.8.3.6

Abstract

This paper simply an attempt to challenge the epistemological anarchism by using scientific rationality as the sole guardian of rationality. This increasing interrogation of the objectivist claims of scientific knowledge received a reinforcement with the advent of recent theories which offered rigorous critique of foundationalist epistemologies. The philosophical quest for certainty and truth has been challenged by relativists of multiple hues and colours. The Jaina doctrines of Syadvada and anekantavada emphasized on grasping the relativistic positions or points of view with regard to the same phenomena whereas pre-Socratic Sophists brought out a relativistic critique of philosophy in ancient Greece. . On the religious plane, such religions as. Hinduism. Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity. Islam etc., have historically claimed to be repositories of truth. In modern times, such movements or ideologies as Humanism, Capitalism Socialism, etc., have competed for attention as liberating panaceas across the globe. Various religious value-systems or even secular-rational value-frameworks have also claimed to resolve all the social political and economic problems faced by contemporary world

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