Question
One of Emmanuel Levinas’s (“LEV-in-ahss’s”) greatest regrets was mocking this philosopher in a skit in which he covered his hair in white powder and repeatedly intoned “I am a pacifist.” A conversation with this philosopher inspired the elliptical design of the reading room of Aby Warburg’s library, where this philosopher researched a book that distinguishes “expressive” and “representative” functions of thought. This philosopher emphasized the human capacity for “spontaneous self-expression” in opposition to another philosopher’s emphasis on “thrownness” during a 1929 debate on the question “what is it to be a human being?” This philosopher, who debated Martin Heidegger at Davos (“da-VOSE”), defined humans as “symbol-making animals.” For 10 points, name this neo-Kantian author of Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. ■END■
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2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 18 | 61% | 0% | 28% | 99.45 |
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Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Chicago A | 80 | 10 |
Amogh Kulkarni | Chicago B | Iowa State A | 83 | 10 |
Nathan Zhang | Cornell A | Imperial A | 90 | 10 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Duke A | 90 | 10 |
Halle Friedman | NYU A | Georgia Tech B | 91 | 10 |
Jack Oberman | South Carolina A | Florida A | 91 | -5 |
Albert Zhang | Columbia B | Purdue A | 97 | 10 |
Matthew Lehmann | WUSTL A | Yale B | 97 | 10 |
Gio Mazzeo | Virginia A | Johns Hopkins A | 99 | -5 |
Mitch McCullar | Illinois A | Georgia Tech A | 99 | -5 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford A | Cornell B | 101 | -5 |
Brad MacLaine | Texas A | Ohio State A | 103 | -5 |
Andrew Hanna | Vanderbilt A | Houston A | 116 | 10 |
Chris Ray | Ohio State A | Texas A | 116 | 10 |
Maximillian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | Virginia A | 117 | 0 |
Yared Tadesse | Cornell B | Stanford A | 117 | 0 |
Tracy Mirkin | Florida A | South Carolina A | 117 | 10 |
Arya Karthik | Georgia Tech A | Illinois A | 117 | 10 |
Henry Cafaro | Chicago C | MIT A | 117 | 0 |
Ian Chow | Toronto A | Indiana A | 117 | 0 |
Vedul Palavajjhala | WUSTL B | Rutgers B | 117 | 0 |
Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Toronto A | 117 | 0 |
Alex Schmidt | Penn State A | Florida B | 117 | 0 |
Ricky Li | MIT A | Chicago C | 117 | 0 |
Mateo Javier Acosta | Florida B | Penn State A | 117 | 0 |
Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Rutgers A | 117 | 0 |