Read the passage carefully and answer the question given below: Any one who…
2023
Read the passage carefully and answer the question given below:
Any one who appreciates the Third World plight will have few difficulties in subscribing to the perspective of dependence. In doing so, most will, none the less commit some gross methodological errors brought about by their subscription also to the fallacious Euro cultural epistemological notion of history as a dialectically programmed progressivist universalism on the march towards the Euro humanist end. This complex fallacy buries human agency so deeply in the huge structure of global capitalism that it becomes nearly impossible to locate. It is in this context that misleading historical ideas and concepts such as universalism, Euro humanism, determinism, developmentalism, progressivism and dialecticism must be exposed, condemned for what they are: deceptive and dangerous from the viewpoint of Third World development in the dynamics of global capitalism on ascendancy. The versatility of this set of fallacies, however, is not to be underestimated. It pervades the entire spectrum of western based political interpretation of present and future histories. Eurocentric progressivist universalism believes that history is necessarily a matter of progressing from one historical stage to another until history itself stops, dies or ends, but not before final history has spread itself universally all over the world, obliterating all other histories and replacing them with itself totally. The core belief here in this piece of monstrous thinking is the absurd idea that history moves in a series of dialectical steps.
Those who subscribe to the issue of the Third World dependence
Answer: D. accept Euro humanism. — ConceptIn an inference question, choose the statement that is explicitly stated or necessarily follows from the passage. Track the grammatical subject and the…
- A.
contribute overtly to euro-centrism.
- B.
reject the European version of history.
- C.
seem to be dialectically programmed.
- D.
accept Euro humanism.
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Correct answer: D
Concept
In an inference question, choose the statement that is explicitly stated or necessarily follows from the passage. Track the grammatical subject and the idea or action attached to it.
Keep the writer’s attitude separate from the belief being attributed to the people described in the passage.
Application
The passage says that people who subscribe to the Third World dependence perspective may also subscribe to a Euro-cultural view of history that moves toward a Euro-humanist end.
Therefore, the relationship attributed to these subscribers is acceptance of Euro humanism.
Contrast
“Contribute overtly to euro-centrism” adds the idea of open advocacy, whereas the passage describes an accompanying methodological commitment.
“Reject the European version of history” reverses the passage’s statement that the Euro-cultural historical framework may also be subscribed to.
“Dialectically programmed” modifies the progressivist notion of history in the passage; it does not describe the subscribers themselves.
“Accept Euro humanism” preserves the passage’s subject-predicate relationship between the subscribers and the Euro-humanist endpoint.
Cross-check
Substituting each completion after the stem leaves only “accept Euro humanism” consistent with both the grammar and the stated relationship in the first paragraph.
Thus, those who subscribe to Third World dependence accept Euro humanism.