This thinker’s fear of “material invention” is discussed to open Richard Sennett’s book The Craftsman. This thinker’s focus on political action is critiqued in The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han, whose book written “In Praise of Inactivity” is titled for a concept discussed by this thinker. This thinker analyzed the Sputnik launch in a book that posits the victory of animal laborans over homo faber. This thinker’s last work, The Life of the Mind, elaborates on a contrast between ways of life based on labor and reflection, the vita activa and vita contemplativa. A book by this thinker examines a man who claimed to follow Kant’s categorical imperative in court testimony. For 10 points, what author of The Human Condition coined the term “banality of evil” in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem? ■END■
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.00 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 105.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 90.60 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.00 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 103.20 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.50 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.50 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 78.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.75 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.80 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.44 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 119.50 |
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| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Warwick A | 45 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas B | 48 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | UNC B | 56 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Columbia B | 61 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Penn A | 62 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Stanford B | 64 | 10 |
| Karan Gurazada | Texas A | TAMU | 64 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | UNC C | 64 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Chicago C | 64 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Chicago D | 64 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 65 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Vassar A | 66 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown A | Tufts A | 66 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Louisville A | 66 | 10 |
| Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | WashU B | 68 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon A | 73 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Columbia C | 73 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC D | 74 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Indiana B | 82 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Alabama A | 84 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan B | Michigan State | 86 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | NYU C | 89 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Cornell B | 89 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Ohio State A | 89 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Brandeis B | 89 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Iowa | 89 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Illinois B | 91 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | Valencia A | 92 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | ASU | 92 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC | UW A | 92 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech A | Tennessee A | 96 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Carleton | 97 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | UMass Boston | 104 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Illinois C | 105 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell D | 107 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 110 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech B | 113 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 124 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF C | 125 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial A | 125 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan D | 125 | 10 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Winona State | 125 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Brandeis A | 125 | -5 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Harvard B | 125 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Cambridge C | 125 | 10 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Durham | 125 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Georgetown A | 127 | 10 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | George Washington B | 127 | 10 |
| Lilli McLaughlin | Wake Forest | Liberty C | 128 | -5 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | Haverford B | 128 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Liberty A | 128 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | Penn B | 129 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Carnegie Mellon B | 129 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida State A | 131 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Liberty B | 131 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 132 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 132 | 0 |
| Elias Kradel | Kenyon | Case Western B | 132 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | BU | 132 | 10 |
| Jared Schwartz | RIT B | ESF A | 132 | 10 |