Baruch Spinoza - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

Gotthold Lessing’s deathbed confession about his views on the ideas of this philosopher led to a controversy named for one of his potential beliefs. For 10 points each:

[10e] The controversy began with Friedrich Jacobi and another philosopher disagreeing about Lessing’s following of this Dutch-Jewish philosopher, the author of Ethics.

ANSWER: Baruch Spinoza [or Benedict Spinoza or Benedictus de Spinoza or Baruch Espinosa]

[10m] The controversy is named after this belief about the nature of God that is sometimes ascribed to Spinoza because of his view that God is Natura naturans.

ANSWER: pantheism [accept pantheism controversy]

[10h] Jacobi’s opponent was this Jewish philosopher, the basis of Lessing’s character Nathan the Wise. This thinker wrote the Morgenstunden during the controversy and argued for the immortality of the soul in his book Phaedon.

ANSWER: Moses Mendelssohn

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	86%	14%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	16.67	100%	22%	44%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	8	10.00	75%	13%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	7.14	57%	0%	14%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	100%	13%	38%
2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	N	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	N	8	8.75	50%	38%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	N	5	10.00	60%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	N	7	17.14	100%	43%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	N	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	N	7	14.29	100%	14%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	N	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	N	7	5.71	43%	14%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	N	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	N	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	N	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	N	7	10.00	86%	14%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	N	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	N	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	N	10	14.00	80%	40%	20%

Data


Bard A	Rowan A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	0	10
Penn A	Penn B	10	0	0	10
Penn State A	Columbia A	10	10	10	30
Rutgers C	Penn State B	0	0	0	0
Indiana A	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Miami	UIUC D	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	Notre Dame	10	0	0	10
SIUE A	Purdue B	10	0	0	10
WashU C	Purdue C	10	0	10	20
UChicago D	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
UChicago C	UIUC A	10	0	10	20
WashU B	UIUC B	10	10	10	30
UChicago B	UIUC C	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
Ohio State C	CWRU A	10	0	0	10
CWRU C	Kenyon A	10	0	0	10
Michigan C	CWRU B	10	0	0	10
Michigan State C	Michigan D	0	0	0	0
Michigan State A	Pitt A	10	0	0	10
Pitt B	Michigan State B	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Ohio State A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
Princeton A	Haverford A	10	0	0	10
Missouri	Iowa	10	0	10	20
Central Oklahoma	Mississippi State	10	0	0	10
Oregon State	McGill E	10	0	0	10
Colorado College	Texas C	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Vassar A	10	0	0	10
Texas D	Vassar B	0	0	0	0
WUSTL A	NYU B	0	0	0	0
UF D	Florida Tech A	10	0	0	10
UCF A	Florida State University A	10	0	0	10
UF B	UCF B	10	10	0	20
UF E	UF F	10	0	0	10
Bristol A	Cambridge A	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge C	Manchester	10	0	10	20
Cambridge D	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Durham	Birmingham	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
LSE A	Oxford A	10	10	10	30
Southampton B	Oxford B	10	0	0	10