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Question

Although Maimonides rejected Averroes’s commentaries on this thinker, later Jewish thinkers like Moses Narboni built a distinct branch of Jewish Averroism. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this Greek philosopher who was the subject of a plethora of medieval commentaries. He also wrote Prior Analytics and Metaphysics.

ANSWER: Aristotle

[10h] Before the emergence of Jewish Averroism, a work about these people by Judah Halevi showed philosophical engagement between Judaic and Islamic thought. In that work, a king of these people uses rational debate to decide which religion to follow, ultimately choosing Judaism.

ANSWER: Khazars [or Kuzari; accept The Book of the Khazar or Sefer ha-Kuzari]

[10m] The twelfth chapter of the Kuzari leans heavily on this thinker’s analysis of the soul. This Islamic philosopher devised the floating man argument to demonstrate that people have immediate and unmediated self-knowledge.

ANSWER: Avicenna [or Ibn Sina or Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn bin ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Ḥasan bin ʿAlī bin Sīnā al-Balkhi al-Bukhari]

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	15.00	75%	25%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	26.00	100%	100%	60%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
McDouble West Carleton	Ottawa B	10	10	10	30
Toronto Ray Of Sun In The Sky	Ottawa A	10	10	10	30
Ottawa C	Waterloo	10	0	10	20
I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me	Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University	10	0	10	20
South Carolina A	Duke	10	10	10	30
North Carolina B	James Madison A	10	0	0	10
James Madison B	NC State	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Emory A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30
Birmingham	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh	Cambridge A	10	0	10	20
Oxford	Durham	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Warwick	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Indiana	Purdue A	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame A	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
George Washington B	Maryland B	0	0	0	0
Georgetown	Johns Hopkins	10	0	10	20
UMD A	GW A	10	0	0	10
Kenyon B	Michigan A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Kenyon A	10	10	10	30
OSU A	OSU B	10	0	10	20
Arizona State	Ganon Evans Fan Club	10	10	0	20
Boston College	Farrellmagnetism	10	0	0	10
MSU A and Friend	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	10	0	10	20
Syracuse+Rochester	Cornell MATLAB	10	0	10	20
RIT	Cornell R	10	0	10	20
Texas A	HCC	10	0	0	10
Texas B	TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	0	0	0	0
TAMU	Texas C	0	0	0	0
Missouri B	Squidward Community College	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	WUSTL H2O	10	10	10	30
WUSTL XYZ	SIUE	10	0	10	20