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Not every American president has been able to resist his nation's call for war. Studies have shown that the main determinant is the kind of childhood the president has experienced. Jimmy Carter was unusual in being able to draw upon his having had fairly loving parents, in particular a mother who encouraged his individuality and independence, a very unusual quality for a parent in the 1920s. It is no coincidence that when I once collected all the childhood photos I could find of American presidents I noticed that only those of Jimmy Carter and Dwight Eisenhower (another president who resisted being drawn into war) showed their mothers smiling.
Ronald Reagan's childhood, in contrast, was more like that of most presidents: a nightmare of neglect and abuse, in his case dominated by an obsessively religious mother and a violent, alcoholic father who, he said, used to "kick him with his boot" and "clobber" him and his brother. The result, as I have documented in my book, Reagan's America, was a childhood of phobias and fears "to the point of hysteria," buried feelings of rage and severe castration anxieties (the title of his autobiography was Where Is The Rest of Me?). As an adult, Reagan took to carrying a loaded pistol, and once considered suicide, only to be saved by the defensive maneuver of taking up politics and becoming an anti-communist warrior, crusading against imaginary "enemies" who were blamed for the feelings he denied in himself.
George Bush's childhood, though not as chaotic as Reagan's, was also full of fear and punishments. Psychohistorian Suzy Kane, interviewing George's brother, Prescott, Jr., discovered that Bush's father often beat him on the buttocks with a belt or a razor strap, the anticipation of which, Prescott, Jr. recalled, made them "quiver" with fear. "He took us over his knee and whopped us with his belt," Prescott said. "He had a strong arm, and boy, did we feel it." As he admitted to Kane, "We were all scared of him. We were scared to death of Dad when we were younger." Childhood classmates of George described his father as "aloof and distant...formidable and stern...very austere and not a warm person." "Dad was really scary," George himself once admitted. As a result, a desperate need to please was George's main trait as a child, and a depressive personality with an overwhelming need to placate became his trademarks as president.
The mood of America as Bush ran for the presidency was also quite depressed, which favored his election over that of his less depressed opponent. During the Eighties, in what was often misnamed "A Decade of Indulgence," America had had an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity, the latter based mainly on manic spending binges on the military and on financial speculation, both financed by borrowing. As will be shown, manic periods such as these usually climax in wars. In 1989, however, America's traditional enemy, the Soviet Union, had collapsed, and a period of unprecedented world peace without any real enemies had "broken out all over," as Newsweek put it. Soon after the end of the Evil Empire, both America and Europe were plunged into depression. Beisel summarized the feeling:
The New York Times speaks of "An Empty Feeling...Infecting Eastern Europe." An authority on Britain finds the British undergoing "self-doubt and self-humiliation...greater now than at any time...over the last thirty years." The cover of the World Press Review speaks of "Germany's Reunified Blues"...Europe is depressed. Just three years ago, Germans were "delirious in the days before and after reunification," said Current History. "A couple of months later, their euphoria had turned to gloom."
America, too, felt just terrible after the downfall of the Berlin Wall. "Democracy is winning," said The New York Times on March 4, 1990. "The arms race is over. Villains are friendly now...the jackpot so long desired was America's. So then why doesn't it feel better?" Everywhere were predictions of doom, decline and the death of the American dream. The media wondered why, despite the fact that world peace had been achieved and the American economy was expanding, "People are incredibly depressed" (The New York Times), "In the past month, there has been a distinct odor of collapse and doom around the city," (New York Post), and "There is something catastrophic coming" (Washington Post). With no foreign enemy onto whom we could project our fears, America had only one option to end its feelings of depression: have a sacrificial economic recession that would punish ourselves and our families for our peace and prosperity.
The treatment of Reagan by his father is incorrectly described by which of the following statements?
a.His father used to revile him and abuse him which left him with a neglected feeling.
b.His father used to lambaste him which was expressed by violent and abusive behaviour.
c.In his childhood, Reagan was pummelled by his father.
d.His father used to verbally abuse him and his brother to the point where they developed feelings of rage.
Which of the following are similarities between Reagan and Bush?
1. Both Reagan and Bush had a childhood dominated by fear.
2. Both had some personality problems resulting from troubled childhood experiences.
3. Both would have found it difficult to resist the call of war.
a.All except 1 b.All except 2 c.All of the above d.None of the above
Which of the following statements cannot be concluded on the basis of the passage?
a.Some of the Americans did experience a feeling of depression in the period after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
b.Some of the British faced self-doubt and self-humiliation after the collapse of the Soviet empire.
c.Periods of peace and prosperity may end in wars.
d.The American economic recession was caused by the Americans themselves due to their feelings of depression.
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Moral philosophy is supposed to provide us with some help in rationally organizing our thinking about moral problems, but unless we know what a moral problem is, we shall not know when such philosophical theorizing is applicable.
a)Though moral problems can be sorted out by moral philosophy, we need to identify them first in order to make use of moral philosophy.
b)Moral philosophy might be able to assist us in sorting out our moral problems but we need to discern them first for its application
c)When we face moral problems in life moral philosophy comes to our rescue as it helps us in sorting out these problems when they are spotted out.
d)Moral philosophy is a kind of philosophical theorizing which enables to deal with our own moral problems whenever they arise.
ANS B ....can any 1 elaborate why A is wrong ?
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Like so many self centered traits , arrogance in others ______ the arrogance in us , or its opposite of timidity and self doubt ; confronted with arrogance , we might erupt indignantly or we might lapse into dwelling _______ on our own limitations.
a.activates , piteously
b.plummets , pensively
c.flares , indulgently
d.nurtures , unwittingly
Like philosophy, art also has a profoundly communicative function.
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Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is a century old next year and, as far as the test of time is concerned, it seems to have done rather well. For many, indeed, it doesn't merely hold up: it is the archetype for what a scientific theory should look like. Einstein's achievement was to explain gravity as a geometric phenomenon: a force that results from the distortion of space-time by matter and energy, compelling objects - and light itself - to move along particular paths, very much as rivers are constrained by the topography of their landscape. General relativity departs from classical Newtonian mechanics and from ordinary intuition alike, but its predictions have been verified countless times. In short, it is the business.
Einstein himself seemed rather indifferent to the experimental tests, however. The first came in 1919, when the British physicist Arthur Eddington observed the Sun's gravity bending starlight during a solar eclipse. What if those results hadn't agreed with the theory? (Some accuse Eddington of cherry-picking the figures anyway, but that's another story.) 'Then,' said Einstein, 'I would have been sorry for the dear Lord, for the theory is correct.'
That was Einstein all over. As the Danish physicist Niels Bohr commented at the time, he was a little too fond of telling God what to do. But this wasn't sheer arrogance, nor parental pride in his theory. The reason Einstein felt general relativity must be right is that it was too beautiful a theory to be wrong.
This sort of talk both delights today's physicists and makes them a little nervous. After all, isn't experiment - nature itself - supposed to determine truth in science? What does beauty have to do with it? 'Aesthetic judgments do not arbitrate scientific discourse,' the string theorist Brian Greene reassures his readers in The Elegant Universe (1999), the most prominent work of physics exposition in recent years. 'Ultimately, theories are judged by how they fare when faced with cold, hard, experimental facts.' Einstein, Greene insists, didn't mean to imply otherwise - he was just saying that beauty in a theory is a good guide, an indication that you are on the right track.
Einstein isn't around to argue, of course, but I think he would have done. It was Einstein, after all, who said that 'the only physical theories that we are willing to accept are the beautiful ones'. And if he was simply defending theory against too hasty a deference to experiment, there would be plenty of reason to side with him - for who is to say that, in case of a discrepancy, it must be the theory and not the measurement that is in error? But that's not really his point. Einstein seems to be asserting that beauty trumps experience come what may.
He wasn't alone. Here's the great German mathematician Hermann Weyl, who fled Nazi Germany to become a colleague of Einstein's at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton: 'My work always tries to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.' So much for John Keats's 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.' And so much, you might be tempted to conclude, for scientists' devotion to truth: here were some of its greatest luminaries, pledging obedience to a different calling altogether.
What is the main point of this passage?
1) Beauty is not truth when it comes to scientific theories.
2) Scientists tend to prefer beautiful scientific theories over verifiable ones.
3) Some scientists, like Einstein, focus on the beauty rather than verification of scientific theories.
4) Einstein and other scientists have shown how beauty is an important quality of scientific theories.
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. Which of the following, if true, would not validate Einstein's views as stated in this passage?
1) Throughout history, the most successful and important scientific theories have been the most 'beautiful' ones.
2) Flawed experimental designs can sometimes invalidate scientific theories, in which case, the theories' beauty is a good guide to the truth.
3) The term 'beauty', as used by scientists, is merely another word for anything that throws light on the basic structure of the universe.
4) 'Beauty' in scientific terms merely means simplicity, and simple theories are more likely to be true
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Lovers of poetry in the pre-modernist era had been ____ on a thin diet of either platonic idealism or a post - ' 90's "decadence" , and it was felt that ______ and businesslike America could not equal the sophistication of England.
alive ; astute
stable ; machiavellian
quisling ; desolate
surviving : barbaric
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politicians are accused of being mendacious and of misleading the public
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meaning of BOLD line ?
If you were to look at a middle-class family in the 1960s, you would find that it did all right on one salary. Now two are required. The real wealth contributed by women has somehow been inflated away, while a great deal of new paper wealth has been created in such areas as money markets and mergers.
Was the inflating away of the real wealth created by women a result of reducing the central societal perception to mere economic logic with its utilitarian limitations? Was this exacerbated by the absence of counter- balancing international treaties in key areas such as taxation, work conditions, myriad legal obligations, and the environment?
I come now to the definition of "knowledge". As in the cases of "belief" and "truth", there is a certain inevitable vagueness and inexactitude in the conception. Failure to realize this has led, it seems to me, to important errors in the theory of knowledge. Nevertheless, it is well to be as precise as possible about the unavoidable lack of precision in the definition of which we are in search. It is clear that knowledge is a sub-class of true beliefs: every case of knowledge is a case of true belief, but not vice versa. It is very easy to give examples of true beliefs that are not knowledge. There is the man who looks at a clock which is not going, though he thinks it is, and who happens to look at it at the moment when it is right; this man acquires a true belief as to the time of day, but cannot be said to have knowledge. There is the man who believes, truly, that the last name of the Prime Minister in 1906 began with a B, but who believes this because he thinks that Balfour was Prime Minister then, whereas in fact it was Campbell-Bannerman. There is the lucky optimist who, having bought a ticket for a lottery, has an unshakeable conviction that he will win, and, being lucky, does win. Such instances can be multiplied indefinitely, and show that you cannot; claim to have known merely because you turned out to be right.
What character in addition to truth must a belief have in order to count as knowledge? The plain man would say there must be sound evidence to support the belief. As a matter of common sense this is right in most of the cases in which doubt arises in practice, but if intended as a complete account of the matter it is very inadequate. "Evidence" consists, on the one hand, of certain matters of fact that are accepted as indubitable, and, on the other hand, of certain principles by means of which inferences are drawn from the matters of fact. It is obvious that this process is unsatisfactory unless we know the matters of fact and the principles of inference not merely by means of evidence, for otherwise we become involved in a vicious circle or an endless regress. We must therefore concentrate our attention on the matters of fact and the principles of inference. We may then say that what is known consists, first, of certain matters of fact and certain principles of inference, neither of which stands in need of extraneous evidence, and secondly, of all that can be ascertained by applying the principles of inference to the matters of fact. Traditionally, the matters of fact are those given in perception and memory, while the principles of inference are those of deductive and inductive logic.
There are various unsatisfactory features in this traditional doctrine, though I am not at all sure that, in the end, we can substitute anything very much better. In the first place, the doctrine does not give an intentional definition of "knowledge", or at any rate not a purely intentional definition; it is not clear what there is in common between facts of perception and principles of inference. In the second place, it is very difficult to say what are facts of perception. In the third place, deduction has turned out to be much less powerful than was formerly supposed; it does not give new knowledge, except as to new forms of words for stating truths in some sense already known. In the fourth place, the methods of inference that may be called in abroad sense "inductive" have never been satisfactorily formulated, ; when formulated, even if completely true, they only give probability to their conclusions, moreover, in any possibly accurate form, they lack self-evidence, and are only to be believed, if at all, because they seem indispensable in reaching conclusions that we all accept.
Q1. Which of the following is false about knowledge, as evident from the author's views in the passage?
Options:
1.Every case of knowledge is a case of true belief but not vice versa.
2.Evidence is the component, which along with truth and belief, in most of the cases, gives rise to knowledge completely.
3.Inductive' methods of inference are probabilistic in their conclusions, lacking self-evidence.
4.None of the above.
Q2. The passage relates to studies on:
Options:
1.Sociology.
2.Psychology.
3.Philosophy.
4.Logic and Deductions.
Q3. Which one of the following analogies does not resemble the reasoning given by the author in this passage?
Options:
1.A person, whose horse is very lucky, believes that his horse will win the race and his horse being lucky wins the race
2.A student knows he will definitely get the first rank because he works very hard compared to all the other students and he does get the first rank
3.A woman firmly believes that her husband's nick name begins with a "P", but who believes this because she thinks that his nick name is Prince but actually it is Pauper.
4.Both (a) and (c)
Q4.
What does the author mean by the terms infinite regress or vicious circle in this passage?
Options:
1. Certain matters of fact and certain principles of inference should not stand in need of extraneous evidence
2. These terms are involved with Matters of facts and principles of inference which might make the process unsatisfactory
3. Evidence supporting Principles of inference and matter of facts
4. Principles of matter supporting matter of facts and matter of facts supporting principles of matter in a circular manner.
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