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AP English Language and Composition 5.4 Passage Drill. The first paragraph implies that "the particular sciences" what?
Transcript
- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
- 00:03
And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by particular sciences.
- 00:07
Because science as a whole couldn't get its act together.
- 00:10
All right, check out the following passage.
- 00:12
[ mumbles ]
Full Transcript
- 00:17
All right, we're mumbling. We're reading, but we're mumbling.
- 00:19
[ mumbles ]
- 00:30
[ mumbling continues ] All right, that's how we read here at Shmoop.
- 00:36
It's also how we brush our teeth.
- 00:37
We just hold the toothbrush there and mumble.
- 00:41
Okay, well, the first paragraph implies that the particular sciences... what?
- 00:45
And here are the potential answers.
- 00:47
[ mumbles ]
- 00:52
All right, we done reading the options here?
- 00:54
Okay, so this one's pretty easy if we take another look
- 00:56
at the sentence in which the phrase "particular sciences" appears.
- 01:00
This one. Right here. You lookin'?
- 01:02
Come on. All right.
- 01:03
The speaker's pointing out that ideas of good and evil aren't
- 01:06
even considered in most scientific thought,
- 01:08
but that philosophy is still caught up in morality.
- 01:11
We'll start by nixing option A.
- 01:13
The speaker's whole point is that being too concerned about ethics
- 01:16
is keeping philosophers from making any progress.
- 01:18
He wants philosophers to be more like scientists, not
- 01:21
less like them.
- 01:22
Does that mean they get to wear those cool lab jackets, too?
- 01:25
[ mumbles ]
- 01:28
All right, B and C are both wrong because they say that ethics
- 01:31
are a part of scientific thought.
- 01:33
Well, as we just said, the speaker thinks it's cool that science
- 01:35
is ethics-free.
- 01:37
He likes his science non-organic, genitally mutated, and
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raised in cages. [ crash ]
- 01:43
[ burp ]
- 01:44
Option E is saying the opposite of what the speaker is arguing.
- 01:47
According to the speaker, ethics tie us in with fallacies
- 01:50
or delusions of human nature.
- 01:52
So the particular sciences have to be more removed, not less removed.
- 01:56
Right? Right.
- 01:58
Option D is the only one that gets the point.
- 02:01
Philosophy is the last refuge
- 02:03
where examinations of good and evil can still exist
- 02:06
because the other sciences have given them the boot.
- 02:09
Aww. We kind of feel bad for good and evil.
- 02:12
If the speaker has his way, well, they'll have no refuge at all.
- 02:16
Maybe we should set up a sanctuary for ethics. How 'bout that?
- 02:19
[ harp ]
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