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The Passage given below came in 2006 Eng.Composition paper. When i read it twice or thrice, i had not even fetched a little understanding of this passage.
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It was not so in Greece, where philosophers professed less, and undertook more. Parmenides pondered nebulously over the mystery of knowledge; but the pre-Socratics kept their eyes with fair consistency upon the firm earth, and sought to ferret out its secrets by observation and experience, rather than to create it by exuding dialectic; there were not many introverts among the Greeks. Picture Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher; would he not be perilous company for the dessicated scholastics who have made the disputes about the reality of the external world take the place of medieval discourses on the number of angles that could sit on the point of a pin? Picture Thales, who met the challenge that philosophers were numskulls by “cornering the market” and making a fortune in a year. Picture Anaxagoras, who did the work of Darwin for the Greeks and turned Pericles form a wire-pulling politician into a thinker and a statesman, Picture old Socrates, unafraid of the sun or the stars, gaily corrupting young men and overturning governments; what would he have done to these bespectacled seedless philosophasters who now litter the court of the once great Queen? To Plato, as to these virile predecessors, epistemology was but the vestibule of philosophy, akin to the preliminaries of love; it was pleasant enough for a while, but it was far from the creative consummation that drew wisdom’s lover on. Here and there in the shorter dialogues, the Master dallied amorously with the problems of perception, thought, and knowledge; but in his more spacious moments he spread his vision over larger fields, built himself ideal states and brooded over the nature and destiny of man. And finally in Aristotle philosophy was honoured in all her boundless scope and majesty; all her mansions were explored and made beautiful with order; here every problem found a plaand every science brought its toll to wisdom. These men knew that the function of philosophy was not to bury herself in the obscure retreats of epistemology, but to come forth bravely into every realm of inquiry, and gather up all knowledge for the coordination and illumination of human character and human life.
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In contrast to Parmenides, who based their quest for knowledge on vague imagination, philosophers before the period of Socrates derived it through experimentation. Democritus was in contrast to early Greek philosophers who were at odds regarding the truth about the outer universe.Thales, Anaxagoras and Socrates put their efforts for reformation and evolution of the discipline of philosophy.According to Plato, knowledge was the gate way for philosophy but it was not a source of happiness for one who seeks wisdom.he not only tried to solve the imaginative queries of individual but also broaden this aspect up to the ideal state and ultimate human destiny. It was Aristotle who beautified and unearthed the philosophy.It was, therefore, evident that philosophy was not subservient to knowledge but a broad discipline connecting human nature with real life.
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