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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by particular sciences.

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Because science as a whole couldn't get its act together.

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All right, check out the following passage.

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[ mumbles ]

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All right, we're mumbling. We're reading, but we're mumbling.

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[ mumbles ]

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[ mumbling continues ] All right, that's how we read here at Shmoop.

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It's also how we brush our teeth.

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We just hold the toothbrush there and mumble.

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Okay, well, the first paragraph implies that the particular sciences... what?

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And here are the potential answers.

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[ mumbles ]

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All right, we done reading the options here?

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Okay, so this one's pretty easy if we take another look

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at the sentence in which the phrase "particular sciences" appears.

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This one. Right here. You lookin'?

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Come on. All right.

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The speaker's pointing out that ideas of good and evil aren't

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even considered in most scientific thought,

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but that philosophy is still caught up in morality.

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We'll start by nixing option A.

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The speaker's whole point is that being too concerned about ethics

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is keeping philosophers from making any progress.

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He wants philosophers to be more like scientists, not

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less like them.

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Does that mean they get to wear those cool lab jackets, too?

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[ mumbles ]

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All right, B and C are both wrong because they say that ethics

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are a part of scientific thought.

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Well, as we just said, the speaker thinks it's cool that science

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is ethics-free.

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He likes his science non-organic, genitally mutated, and

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raised in cages. [ crash ]

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[ burp ]

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Option E is saying the opposite of what the speaker is arguing.

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According to the speaker, ethics tie us in with fallacies

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or delusions of human nature.

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So the particular sciences have to be more removed, not less removed.

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Right? Right.

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Option D is the only one that gets the point.

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Philosophy is the last refuge

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where examinations of good and evil can still exist

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because the other sciences have given them the boot.

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Aww. We kind of feel bad for good and evil.

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If the speaker has his way, well, they'll have no refuge at all.

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Maybe we should set up a sanctuary for ethics. How 'bout that?

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