Question
This book uses the example of the Sophists to argue that people who believe they understand the world logically can be easily manipulated. This book imagines King Charles II asking the Royal Society why a dead fish weighs more than a live one to claim that theories in the social sciences are no longer predictive. This book laments the loss of unifying commonplaces that existed in the “predecessor culture.” Inspired by A Canticle for Leibowitz, this book opens by describing a society where words like (*) “neutrinos” and “gravity” are used senselessly after understanding of science disappears. After describing the abolition of taboos in Polynesia, this book calls Nietzsche “the King Kamehameha II of the European tradition.” This book criticizes the Enlightenment’s “moral project” and its abandonment of teleology. For 10 points, name this book defending Aristotelian ethics by Alasdair MacIntyre. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 96.33 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 94.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 67% | 33% | 0% | 111.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 20% | 0% | 104.25 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 122.60 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 0% | 95.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 130.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 74 | 15 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 76 | 15 |
Jason Golfinos | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Cry of the Common Loon | 79 | 15 |
John Lawrence | Walston et. al. | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 95 | 10 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 95 | 10 |
Anderson Wang | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Berkeley | 95 | 10 |
Liam Kusalik | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 110 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 111 | 10 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford+ | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 115 | 10 |
Andrew Hart | BHSU Rebirth | Clown Senpais | 120 | 10 |
Ali Izzatdust | Simple Vibes | Limp Franceskit | 136 | -5 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Northeast by Northwestern | 138 | 10 |
Benjamin Chapman | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 138 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | hawk two of | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 139 | 10 |
Charles Hang | WashU | Clown Squad | 140 | 10 |
Daoud Jackson | Defying Suavity | Cambridge | 140 | 10 |
Benjamin Watson | Limp Franceskit | Simple Vibes | 140 | 10 |
Jeremy Tsai | just one more half-dot bro | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 140 | 0 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | just one more half-dot bro | 140 | 0 |
Halle Friedman | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | Cope is the thing with feathers | 140 | 0 |
Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 140 | 0 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 140 | 0 |