A thinker from this country placed consciousness in a “transcendental predicate plane” and synthesized “acting” and “seeing” as “active intuition.” The essay “What Is Religion?” opens a book from this country that analyzes Meister Eckhart’s negative theology as a form of nihilism. A thinker from this country wrote “The Logic of Place and the Religious Worldview” and theorized a fundamental “pure experience.” A Heidegger-influenced school from this country included a thinker who theorized “absolute nothingness” in An Inquiry into the Good. Ideas from this country involving impermanence include one that translates to “pathos of things” and a rhyming aesthetic principle that praises flaws like a chipped cup. For 10 points, name this country whose “way of the warrior” is called bushidō. ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.67 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.33 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 67.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 40 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Virginia Tech A | 41 | 10 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | Missoui S&T | 47 | 10 |
| Koji Bilbao | Duke | UNC D | 55 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | George Washington B | 55 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 64 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | NYU B | 64 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | George Washington A | 64 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 67 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 74 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Missouri | 74 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas B | 74 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | John Jay College | 74 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Harvard A | 77 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis B | 87 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Chicago C | 88 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | TAMU | 94 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Penn B | 102 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | Haverford A | 104 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | Dartmouth A | 105 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty C | 106 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | UNC C | 106 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Indiana B | 106 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown A | Harvard B | 106 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Vassar A | 106 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | UW A | 109 | 10 |
| Bennett Grappone | Alberta | UW B | 109 | 10 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago D | WashU B | 113 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | Haverford B | 119 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Illinois C | 120 | 10 |
| Ethan Siskel | Tufts A | UMass Boston | 120 | 10 |
| Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | Liberty A | 121 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Wake Forest | 121 | 10 |