One of the principal themes of Walzer's critique of liberal
capitalism is that it is insufficiently egalitarian. Walzer's
case against the economic inequality generated by
capitalism and in favor of "a radical redistribution of
5 wealth" is presented in a widely cited essay entitled "In
Defense of Equality." The most striking feature of
Walzer's critique is that, far from rejecting the principle of
reward according to merit, Walzer insists on its validity.
People who excel should receive the superior
10 benefits appropriate to their excellence. But people
exhibit a great variety of qualities—"intelligence,
physical strength, agility and grace, artistic creativity,
mechanical skill, leadership, endurance, memory,
psychological insight, the capacity for hard
15 work—even moral strength, sensitivity, the ability to
express compassion."Each deserves its proper
recompense, and hence a proper distribution of material
goods should reflect human differences as measured on
all these different scales. Yet, under capitalism, the ability
20 to make money ("the green thumb of bourgeois society")
enables its possessor to acquire almost "every other sort
of social good," such as the respect and esteem of others.
5.The passage provides sufficient information to
answer which of the following questions EXCEPT?
□A What weight in relation to other qualities
should a quality like sensitivity have,
according to Walzer, in determining the
proper distribution of goods?
□B Which quality does Walzer deem too highly
valued under liberal capitalism?
□C Which are the social goods that are, according
to Walzer, outside the reach of the power of
money?
答案是AC,为什么要选C? 根据最后一句话中的 such as the respect and esteem of others
很明显能排除C啊
你最后一句话没有看懂。
Yet, under capitalism, the ability
to make money ("the green thumb of bourgeois society")
enables its possessor to acquire almost "every other sort
of social good," such as the respect and esteem of others.
意思是有钱人几乎什么都能有,比如尊重。
然后C是:钱买不到什么?---文中没提到。