A Don Garrett paper argues that a philosopher does not contradict himself by claiming that a man with this property “always acts honestly, not deceptively.” A man with this property “thinks least of all of death, and his wisdom is a meditation on life, not on death.” The preface to Part 4 of Spinoza’s Ethics introduces a man with this property who is the “model of human nature” by which people can be judged. A person with this property lives solely according to (*) reason rather than the passions, and thus only has adequate ideas. The Appendix to Part I of Ethics argues that people only believe they have a form of this property because they are ignorant of the causes of their volitions. For 10 points, Spinoza titled Part 5 of Ethics after what property, which is contrasted with “Human Bondage”? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 137.83 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | The RAND Coöperation | 98 | -5 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | Do re mi fa serving negs | 112 | -5 |
| John Marvin | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 122 | 10 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 127 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 137 | -5 |
| John Lawrence | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | It's not X, but... defenders | 138 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | Broken Socal Scene | 139 | -5 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 140 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 140 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Floridovician | BHSU X | 141 | 10 |
| Dylan Minarik | The RAND Coöperation | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 141 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 141 | 10 |
| Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | Halifax Shipping Services | 141 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 141 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Do re mi fa serving negs | Big is moving to Evanston! | 141 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 141 | 10 |