91年10月gre考试阅读真题解析(B)-智课教育旗下智课教育21.pdfVIP

智 课 网 G R E 备 考 资 料 91年10月gre考试阅读真题解析(B)-智课教育旗下智课 教育 新gre考试阅读中对于逻辑题的考生是一个重点，但真题也不容错 过。复习gre考试阅读的时候，gre考生应该以往年的真题为复习材料， 从真题中总结阅读规律和特点才是制胜法宝。 新gre考试阅读中对于逻辑题的考生是一个重点，但真题也不容错 过。接下来的几天给大家整理了历届gre考试阅读真题及解析，下面这 篇是1991年10月gre考试阅读真题SECTION B部分。复习gre考试阅读 的时候，gre考生应该以往年的真题为复习材料，从真题中总结阅读规 律和特点才是制胜法宝。 Present-day philosophers usually envision their discipline as an endeavor (activity directed toward a goal: ENTERPRISE “fields of endeavor”) that has been, since antiquity, distinct from and superior to any particular intellectual discipline, such as theology or science. Such philosophical concerns as the mind-body problem or, more generally, the nature of human knowledge, they believe, are basic human questions whose tentative philosophical solutions have served as the necessary foundations on which all other intellectual speculation (intellectual speculation: 知识的思索) has rested. The basis for this view, however, lies in a serious misinterpretation of the past, a projection of modern concerns onto past events. The idea of an autonomous discipline called “philosophy,” distinct from and sitting in judgment on such pursuits as theology and science turns out, on close examination, to be of quite recent origin. When, in the seventeenth century, Descartes and Hobbes rejected medieval philosophy, they did not think of themselves, as modern philosophers do, as proposing a new and better philosophy, but rather as furthering “the warfare between science and theology.” They were fighting, albeit discreetly, to open the intellectual world to the new science and to liberate intellectual life from ecclesiastical philosophy and envisioned their work as contributing to the growth, not of philosophy, but of research in mathematics and physics. This link between philosophical interests and scientific practice persisted until the nineteenth century, when decline in ecclesiastical power over scholarship