Passages with Solved Precis From the very outset philosophy came forward as a science and as the only science. The highest and more certain knowledge was the aim which inspired its disciples. The fact that the question could be-raised as to whether it was a science at all can only be understood in the light of the development of the specially, modern sciences which came to fruition in the nineteenth century,...

Passages with Solved Precis To know what the Buddha actually taught, we must place ourselves in imagination of India in the sixth century B.C. Thinkers, like other people, are in no small measure rooted in time and place. The form in which they cast their ideas is largely moulded by the habits of thought and action which they find around them. Great minds make individual contributions of permanent value to the...

Passages with Solved Precis Something like 30,00,000 acres of crops and pastures in Britain are annually sprayed against weeds and insect pests, and the area grows every year. Is this good or bad? Is it mere labour-saving, is it a substitute for good husbandry, or is it a genuine advance in farming methods? And what will be its effect on us-in terms of health and welfare? It is a fair statement...

Passages with Solved Precis The production and distribution of the modern popular newspaper, which reckons its readers by the million, entails a vast expenditure of money and an elaborate business organization such as only highly capitalised firms can afford. The intense competition for the pennies of the vast reading public and for the patronage of advertisers has caused newspapers with insufficient financial backing to be eliminated or absorbed by their stronger...

Passages with Solved Precis Here then is the first answer to the question, what is the aim of education? Its aim is to know first rate in every subject that we study with a view to achieving it as nearly as our powers allow. If we fix it firmly in our mind we should not stumble through a variety of lessons, lectures and books like a drunk man, only partially aware...

Passages with Solved Precis “Science has all along been a vital factor in the development of human civilization”. Perhaps, no other branch or human thought could produce such an ‘impressive’ and ‘shaping’ influence on man’s social, moral, economic and cultural life as science did. “Conquest of man’s sheer ignorance was the first achievement of science”, said Bertrand Russell. “Man trained and educated by the Great Teacher-Science” said Tagore, “Occupied his place...

Passages with Solved Precis Most people would agree that, although our age far surpassed all previous ages in knowledge there has been no correlative increase in wisdom. But agreement ceases as soon as we attempt to define ‘wisdom’ and consider means of promoting it. I want to ask first what wisdom is, and then what can be done to teach it. There are, I think, several factors that contribute to wisdom....

Passages with Solved Precis The construction of Utopias used to be despised as the foolish refuge of those who could not face the real world. But in our time, social change has been so rapid, and so largely inspired by Utopian aspirations, that it is more necessary than it used to be to consider the wisdom or wisdom of dominant aspirations. Marx, though he made fun of Utopians, was himself one...