evil - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

A 1951 Hannah Arendt book characterizes this concept’s “radical” form as making humans superfluous. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this concept. In a 1963 book, Arendt described how a self-described “joiner” of organizations believed he was following the categorical imperative, thus explaining how he exemplified the “banality of [this concept].”

ANSWER: evil [accept radical evil; accept the banality of evil] (That 1963 book is Eichmann in Jerusalem.)

[10e] Both the term radical evil and the categorical imperative were first coined by this German Enlightenment philosopher who also wrote Critique of Pure Reason.

ANSWER: Immanuel Kant

[10h] Arendt first wrote about radical evil in this aforementioned 1951 book consisting of essays on antisemitism, imperialism, and its title political system.

ANSWER: The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	12	16.67	83%	67%	17%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	10	16.00	80%	70%	10%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	24.44	100%	100%	44%

Data


Cornell D	Cornell C	10	10	0	20
CWRU B (DII)	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
West Virginia A (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	10	10	10	30
Miami B (UG)	Miami A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan A (UG)	Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan D (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	Michigan B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State B	West Virginia B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	CWRU A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Miami C (DII)	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	0	10
Alberta	Arizona State B	10	10	0	20
UW Pride	UBC A	10	10	0	20
UW Gluttony	UBC B	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	UW Chastity	0	10	0	10
UW Envy	Boise State	10	10	0	20
UW Lust	UW Sloth	10	10	0	20
UW Greed	UW Wrath	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Furman	Auburn B	10	10	0	20
Clemson A	Belmont	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Clemson B	10	10	0	20
Emory A	South Carolina B	10	10	0	20
Georgia A	Georgia Tech C	0	0	0	0
Emory Oxford	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Auburn C	Southern	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Mississippi State A	10	10	10	30
Tennessee B	Vanderbilt B	0	0	0	0
Appalachian State A	Tusculum	0	10	0	10
UNC D	Appalachian State B	10	0	0	10
Duke B	Duke A	10	0	0	10
James Madison A	Virginia	10	10	0	20
James Madison B	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
VCU	NC State	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	UNC A	10	10	10	30
UNC B	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	UNC C	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	William & Mary	10	10	0	20
Lehigh B (DII)	Bard A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Columbia A (UG)	Maryland A (DII)	10	10	0	20
Fordham A	NYU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Lehigh A (UG)	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Maryland B (DII)	Rutgers B	10	10	0	20
Penn B (DII)	Columbia J (DII)	10	10	0	20
Princeton A (UG)	Rowan A (DII)	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A (UG)	Penn A (DII)	10	10	0	20
Indiana	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	SIUE	10	10	10	30
Iowa A	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Iowa B	Notre Dame A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame C	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	WashU B	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Purdue C	10	10	10	30