Question

A country’s intellectual battle between adherents of this thinker and adherents of Herbert Spencer was chronicled in Doctrine Against Doctrine by Silvio Romero. This thinker divided human faculties into the personal, social, and intellectual in his “cerebral table.” This thinker’s ideas were made the basis of the curriculum of Mexico’s National Preparatory School by this thinker’s follower (10[1])Gabino Barreda. (10[1]-5[1])According to this thinker, prioritizing the social would allow us to embody the motto “live for others.” This disciple of Henri de Saint-Simon placed (10[1])societies that had advanced (10[1]-5[1])to believing in an abstract (10[1])guiding (10[1])power, (10[2])rather than God, in a “metaphysical” stage following a (10[1])“theological” (10[2])stage. (10[2])The terms “altruism” and “sociology” (10[1])were coined (10[1])by, for 10 points, (-5[1])what French philosopher who created (10[1])positivism? (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Auguste Comte (“cont”) [or Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier Comte]
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Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y21100%0%14%100.71

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nathan ZhangCornell AWaterloo A5610
Adrian WongOttawaNorth Carolina A58-5
Jakob MyersIndianaYale5810
Andrew ZengStanfordUCF8210
Guy IndoranteIowa StateFlorida86-5
Ian LuGeorgia TechNorth Carolina B8610
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BVirginia Tech9110
Akshar GoyalIllinois ARIT9210
Ned TagtmeierChicago AMichigan9310
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AWaterloo B9310
Jaik HavlickArizona StateColumbia B10210
Teigue KellyPenn StateChicago B10310
Matthew WangBritish ColumbiaToronto B10310
Puna EkkaMinnesotaColumbia A10410
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateOhio State10410
Charles HangWUSTL ACornell B10910
Chris SimsNorthwesternJohns Hopkins11110
John John GrogerWUSTL BWinona State115-5
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina AOttawa12010
Aum MundheRutgersToronto C12110
Truman HillVanderbiltMaryland12110
Leo LawFloridaIowa State12210
Henry BonWinona StateWUSTL B12210
Yrwin BatanMITIllinois B12210