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Bilal Hassan · #**111** Monday, January 14, 2013

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Originally Posted by seher bano

Precis 2006
Seniors check this precis please.
This was the toughest precis I have ever seen.

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 place and 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. (358)

Precis
The Journey of Philosophy
Greek philosophers
Role of Philosophy in the World.
Greek Philosophers put great efforts in the study of philosophy. Some of them were vague but others contributed very much in finding out the mysteries of the world as well. Furthermore, some philosophers tried to become famous within a short span of time; and there had been also attempts to overthrow the government. However, some of them totally changed the mind sets of the politicians. In addition, philosophy of Plato, undoubtedly, was attractive, but he could not touch the lovers of wisdom. Finally, Aristotle’s philosophy gained wide currency in virtually every walk of life; and other philosophers got to know that philosophy was not a limited subject. Rather, its scope was very broad. (113)

Title could also be, Genesis of Philosophy in Greece...
This was indeed a tricky one...good effort..

amna rafiq · #**112** Thursday, January 17, 2013

2003
If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of a society. Its ah is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, not creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotle or Newtons of Napoleons or Washingtons of Raphaels or Shakespearcs though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, through such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to a great ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular aspirations. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them, ft teaches him to sec things as they arc, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical and to - discard what is irrelevant. It prepares him to fill any post with credit, and to master any subject with facility

Precis :

It is beyond doubt that the only purpose of education is the creation of useful personalities within societies. Its scope is not limited to a particular field but it has opened new horizons. It does not ensure the production of genius/great minds. Never the less, the final configuration of the society is the reflection of education. It provides him the insight of the nature & to conquer the natural phenomena. Thus education is the panacea of all human ills.

Title: “Education, solution of all problems”

kinglibra · #**113** Friday, January 18, 2013

Seniors kindly check my precis of following passage:

A general, who had won a victory in battle, went in the evening to see the battlefield. He took with him a soldier. As they were walking over the field and counting the number of dead they suddenly heard a cry from a man who seemed to have been wounded and who wanted help. They went to him.
"Water," said the man. "Give him something to drink," said the general.
The soldier bent down to raise his cup to the man's lips, but as he did so the man raised himself on one arm, pulled out his revolver and fired twice at the general. Luckily, because it was growing dark and because the man's aim was not good, the bullets missed the general. The soldier angrily took his cup away and was going to kill the wounded man when the general said, "No. Give him a drink even so."

Answer:
A general had won a battle and went with a soldier to observe the battlefield. A wounded soldier in field cried for water, the general ordered his men to get him some water, but the soldier attempted to kill the general. The general remained safe and even then commanded to help the wounded man.

amna rafiq · #**114** Friday, January 18, 2013

2005

Basically, psychoses and neuroses represent man’s inability to maintain a balanced or equated polarity in conducting his life. The ego becomes exclusively or decidedly one sided. In psychoses there is a complete collapse of the ego back into the inner recesses of the personal and collective unconsciousness. When he is repressed toward fulfilling some life goal and where he is further unable to sublimate himself toward another goal, man regresses into goal structures not actually acceptable to himself or to the society. Strong emotional sickness of the psychotic type is like having the shadow run wild. The entire psyche regresses to archaic, animal forms of behaviors. In less severe forms of emotional sickness there may be an accentuated and overpowering use of one of the four mental functions at the expense of the other three. Either thinking, feeling, intuiting or seeing may assume such a superior role as to render the other three inoperative. The persona may become so dominant as to create a totally one-sided ego, as in some forms of neurotic behavior. All in all, whatever the type of severity of the emotional disorder, it can be taken as a failure of the psyche to maintain a proper balance between the polarities of life. Essentially, psychoses and neuroses are an alienation of the self from its true goal of self-actualization. In this sense the culture is of no consequence. Emotional disorder is not a question of being out of tune with one’s culture so much as it is of being out of tune with one’s self. Consequently, neurosis is more than bizarre behavior, especially as it may be interpreted by contemporaries in the culture. This interpretation avoids the sociological question of what is a mental disorder, since form of behavior which is acceptable in one culture may be considered neurotic in other culture. To Jung, the deviation from cultural norms is not the point. The inability to balance out personal polarities is.

Précis: psychosis & neurosis are simply regarded as the deviation from self. They occur when a man fails to sustains a balanced life & remains unable to understand himself, thus out of four only one sense prevails the mind ,consequently he fails to elevate himself towards alternate goals & adopts measures those are not esteemed by the society. Escaping the cultural norms cannot be attributed as abnormality rather it is being unable to maintain a harmonized personality.
Title : “Emotional disorders, causes & consequences"

Waqas77 · #**115** Saturday, January 19, 2013

ORIGINAL
Hazrat Ali gae the last bath to the body of the Prophet (Peace be Upon him). While doing so he was heard saying: "My parents be sacrificed, your death has resulted in the loss of things, which nobody else's death did ever terminate. Your death is a great shock, it has deadened the heart towards all calamities; it is a tragedy the agony of which all share. If you had not counselled us to bear it with composure and fortitiude and forbidden wailing, we would have immersed you in tears and even that pain would not have lessened nor the wounds been healed. There is o cure for this pain and no end to this grief Please mention us to the Almighty and do not forget us." The prophet's body was wrapped in three pieces of clothes.
His body was kept where he breathed his last. The funeral prayer was offered first by the members of his house, then by the immigrants, then by the helpers and lastly by women and children.Nobody led the prayers. It was a small room and ten persons at a time could go inside.Prayers continued for a period of 32 hours at the end of which the body was laid to rest in the grave.

Title Type 1: Last Rituals of Prophet (Peace Be upon him)
Precis Type 1:
Hazrat Ali with extreme grief and pain gave last bath to Holy Prophet. After covering his body in three sheets,he was kept in small room where successive groups of ten people would offer his funeral prayers. These groups included his family members, immigrants,helpers and common people.No one was leading in prayers. His body was buried in his death place after thirty-two hours of funeral prayers.

Title Type 2: Grief in Last Rituals of Prophet (Peace Be Upon him)
Precis Type 2:
Hazrat Ali termed the death of Holy Prophet as incalculable and unbearable loss for mankind in general and for his companions in particular. Had he not advised his companions to be patient on act as consoling over such tragedy, they would have bitterly wept and moaned his body. Hazrat Ali gave Prophet the last bath and requested him to remember them all to Almighty. The funeral prayers were offered in shifts by his family members, immigrants and helpers because the room where his body was laid was small.

Colleagues, Please analyse and update which aspect from above two types be highlighted....?

Prince Roghani · #**116** Thursday, March 14, 2013

Dear . great but loose attempt, try to improve ur punctuation and use short sentences in order to achieve greater clearity which is altogether missing in ur attempt. concentrate on grammar and try to write periodic sentences.

Regards............
Roghani

SADIA SHAFIQ · #**117** Thursday, August 29, 2013

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Culture, in human societies, has two main aspects; an external, formal aspect and an inner, ideological aspect. The external forms of culture, social or artistic, are merely an organized expression of its inner ideological aspect, and both are an inherent component of a given social structure. They are changed or modified when this structure. They are changed and modified when this structure is changed or modified and because of this organic link they also help and influence such changes in their parent organism. Cultural Problems, therefore, cannot be studied or understood or solved in isolation from social problems, i.e. problems of political and economic relationships. The cultural problems of the underdeveloped countries, therefore, have to be understood and solved in the light of larger perspective, in the context of underlying social problems. Very broadly speaking, these problems are primarily the problems of arrested growth; they originate primarily from long years of imperialist-Colonialist domination and the remnants of a backward outmoded social structure. This should not require much elaboration European Imperialism caught up with the countries of Asia, Africa or Latin America between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of them were fairly developed feudal societies with ancient traditions of advanced feudal culture. Others had yet to progress beyond primitive pastoral tribalism. Social and cultural development of them all was frozen at the point of their political subjugation and remained frozen until the coming of political independence. The culture of these ancient feudal societies, in spite of much technical and intellectual excellence, was restricted to a small privileged class and rarely intermingled with the parallel unsophisticated folk culture of the general masses. Primitive tribal culture, in spite of its child like beauty, had little intellectual content. Both feudal and tribal societies living contagiously in the same homelands were constantly engaged in tribal, racial and religious or other feuds with their tribal and feudal rivals. Colonialist – imperialist domination accentuated this dual fragmentation, the vertical division among different tribal and national groups, the horizontal division among different classes within the same tribal or national groups. This is the basic ground structure, social and cultural, bequeathed to the newly liberated countries by their former over lords.

Syed Ali Arslan · #**118** Sunday, August 06, 2017

I am preparing for css so pls kindly help
My precis for the same paragraph

Prolific rural development is the nucleus of development strategy. Real poverty lies in rural areas which is the progeny of urbanization. This migration has extensively harmed the demography of cities. Rural society should be provided the comfort of modernization in order to cope the problems, it will also secure the rural culture and will bring them into to the development strategy.

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