World of Philosophy

Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan

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II Pastoral period and domestication of animals
During his primitive period man developed affinity with some of the animals that he domesticated latter on for their future use and started rearing them. In this period also human beings had no conflict with nature and its resources. The social scientists are rightly of the opinion that Pastoral period downed upon human beings after his invention of fire and stone weapons in the stone age, which later on paved the way of his agricultur or food producing stage. During the Pastoral period human beings took the form of nomadic tribal stage in searcn of their food and also for the animals that they reared. III. Food producing period :
Human being moved from food procuring stage to food producing stage after his long experiments with nature, spread over thousands of years. In this state he waged his conflict with nature and forests were his first casuality. He started deforestation for his agricultural purposes as he had learnt by then the science of sowing consumbale seeds and also started domestication of congenial fruits bearing trees. This latter on lead to the formation of human family, society and latter on the technology of making his own stationary shelter. It is this period when the concept of property, state and human values were established by the human society to promote them. It was a period of the deification of the objects of nature also to control them by establishing a communion with them. It was the golden period of the origin of Religions, ethical codes and social, political, economic and other laws. In this age the reigns of human civilisation were in the hands of human - value oriented philosophy consequently value based science with its technology was under its governance. IV. Scientific Technological and Industrial
period :
The modem developed period of Science, Technology and Industry is of recent origin though the foundation of this grand and gigantic structure was laid down by human race in the different phases of social and cultural evolution. Though most of the western thinkers trace back the origin of Science as we call it today, to 7th B.C. and give this credit to Greeks, but the archeological evidences collected in the different locations go quite contrary to this claim. The contribution of the prehistoric races of human beings in discovering the science of igniting fire and its management, the discovery of astronomical phenomena, the technic of making tools, utencils and different metals, mathematical calculation, agriculture, architecture, chemicals ay the ancient people in
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