Leviathan - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

While this book denies the existence of a greatest good, it describes violent death as the greatest evil. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this book by Thomas Hobbes that advocates for an absolute monarch to avoid the “war of all against all” and is titled for a Biblical sea monster.

ANSWER: Leviathan [or Leviathan or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil]

[10h] The “war of all against all” occurs in this situation described as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” in Leviathan. This situation with a three-word name describes conditions experienced before humans formed societies.

ANSWER: “state of nature”

[10m] Unlike Hobbes, this philosopher described man in the state of nature as peaceful in Discourse on Inequality. Another book by this philosopher begins “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”

ANSWER: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (That book is The Social Contract.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	7	20.00	100%	57%	43%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	5	24.00	100%	60%	80%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	11	23.64	100%	91%	46%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	7	18.57	86%	71%	29%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	21.25	100%	88%	25%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	24.44	100%	89%	56%

Data


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