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CARS — The MCAT Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills (CARS) section is administered by the AAMC as part of the Medical College Admission Test; it consists of 53 questions across 9 passages drawn from humanities and social sciences, scored on a 118–132 scale, with 90 minutes allotted — no science background is required, and the section tests comprehension, reasoning within the text, and reasoning beyond the text.
31
Questions
90m
Time Limit
70.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 31👑 VIP
Passage: 'The philosopher who insists that moral truths are universal faces an immediate challenge from the anthropologist, who produces catalog after catalog of divergent practices across cultures — infanticide here, polygamy there, ritual violence elsewhere. The universalist must either dismiss this variation as peripheral or argue that beneath the diversity lies a common moral grammar. But the relativist's triumph is equally pyrrhic: if no moral claim can be evaluated against an external standard, then the relativist cannot coherently condemn even the most extreme atrocities, and the very act of defending relativism as the correct view contradicts the doctrine itself.' The author's primary purpose in this passage is best described as:
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