REL 1000 Midterm: Test 2 Notes (got 93% on the test)
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Mahavira: most recent enlightened teacher, born in india ~599 bce into ruling caste, at 30 he renounced the world & began a journey, pulled out his hair and stopped wearing clothes, rejection of the physical world, enlightened after 12 years, died and was liberated at 72. Jain view of the universe: space, universe has 3 realms: underworld, middle world, & heavens, can only achieve liberation in the middle world, born in different realms based on how they have lived their lives, time, 12 stages happiness increases and declines, we are in the 5th stage of decline, jinas are only born in 3rd & 4th. Things aren"t too good or too bad: physical existence, many sidedness idea that everything is changing but also staying the same (ex: flower, assertion with qualification intense relativism; if you think about something you would talk about it in the same way (ex: it seems to me )