ABSTRACT
The concept of justice has many different facets and has always eluded attempts to find a unified conceptualization. The importance of rationality as an integral component of ethical judgement has been stressed, among others, by Rawls, Sen and Habermas. Among the many different ways of understanding rationality, it is useful to focus on the idea of justification as being central to rationality. Dinnaga reduces inference to an analysis of signs and thus brings it under the ambit of semiotics. The principle of ‘generational equality' is that all human beings are completely equal when counted across generations. In principle, there are infinite perspectives but the Jainas use only seven; seven classes or modes contain all possible perspectives. There has been some discussion on the claim that anekantavada is the source of ahimsa, and specifically, what has been called ‘intellectual ahimsa'.
