"Poor post this week," said Northfield. "One sided viewpoint, seemingly without research into the background of the issue".
According to the Tattvārthasūtra, the causes of bandha or the karmic bondage in the order they are required to be eliminated by a soul for spiritual progress are: Mithyātva (Irrationality and a deluded world view) – The deluded world view is the misunderstanding as to how this world really functions on account of one-sided perspectives, perverse viewpoints, pointless generalisations and ignorance.
I suppose I may have been a bit one-sided in my viewpoint, being so frightened to make direct amends with some people in my life that I didn't realize they needed a longer, more in-depth one-on-one conversation.
However, at this resolution we only had "one-sided" BCP corresponding to one viewpoint with all fragments (F Ij for viewpoint I and fragment j).
According to Koller, because anekāntavāda is designed to avoid one-sided errors, reconcile contradictory viewpoints, and accept the multiplicity and relativity of truth, the Jain philosophy is in a unique position to support dialogue and negotiations amongst various nations and peoples.
If the author uses vague or sweeping generalizations without any information to back them up (example: "Madness was despised in Elizabethan times"), or if the arguments are completely one-sided without acknowledging other opinions and viewpoints, it's probably not a good research source.
This criticism seems to have been anticipated by Ācārya Samantabhadra who said: "From the point of view of pramana (means of knowledge) it is anekānta (multi-sided), but from a point of view of naya (partial view) it is ekanta (one-sided)." In defense of the doctrine, Jains point out that anekāntavāda seeks to reconcile apparently opposing viewpoints rather than refuting them.
"It seems quite one-sided".
