A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT OF JAIN AND CHARVAKA PHILOSOPHY

The philosophies have always guided the human race to live a happy and content life. Be it the attainment of salvation or leading the present life happily, all the philosophies help the individual to lead the life wisely and become a content individual in all respects. Amid all the existing philosophies, the paper aims to compare the educational thought of the two philosophies viz. the Charvaka and the Jainism. The paper focuses on their philosophical principles and their educational thought and prescribed actions and tries to highlight the conflicting views.