Immanuel Kant - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This philosopher argued that we undeniably know we are free and bound by a moral law, calling it a “fact of reason.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this philosopher who called his deontological ethics a dictate of “pure practical reason.” This philosopher developed transcendental idealism in Critique of Pure Reason.

ANSWER: Immanuel Kant

[10m] Kant’s “pure practical reason” allows derivation of the categorical imperative despite it being this sort of a priori truth that is not merely true by definition. According to Kant, “7 + 5 = 12” is an example of this sort of truth.

ANSWER: synthetic [accept synthetic a priori]

[10h] This philosopher argued that practical reason derives from our existence in society in the book Dependent Rational Animals. This Scottish philosopher argued that Enlightenment rationalists who tried to derive self-consistent morality were mistaken in After Virtue.

ANSWER: Alasdair MacIntyre

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California	Main	Y	5	24.00	100%	60%	80%
Canada	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Midwest	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
North	Main	Y	4	20.00	75%	50%	75%
Northeast	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
South Central	Main	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	17%	67%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Stanford C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	Berkeley E	10	10	10	30
Berkeley D	Berkeley F	10	0	0	10
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
Stanford A	UCSC	10	10	10	30
UCSD Vices and Virtues	Claremont Scripps	10	0	0	10
Toronto H	Toronto E	10	10	0	20
McGill A	Toronto J	10	10	10	30
Carleton	Toronto Metropolitan	10	0	0	10
Toronto B	McMaster A	10	10	0	20
Toronto K	Queen's A	10	10	0	20
Toronto A	Waterloo	10	10	10	30
Guelph A	Toronto F	10	0	0	10
Toronto D	Toronto G	10	0	0	10
FIU	UCF B	10	10	10	30
CWRU A	Pitt B	10	0	0	10
CWRU C	OSU C	10	0	0	10
Pitt A	MSU B	10	10	10	30
OSU B	OSU D	10	10	0	20
Clemson B	North Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Virginia B	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	North Carolina C	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Georgetown A	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	NYU A	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	George Mason C	10	10	10	30
Catholic University	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Princeton A	Swarthmore A	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	WashU D	10	10	10	30
WashU B	Missouri B	10	0	0	10
Macalester B	Minnesota C	10	0	0	10
Iowa State	Minnesota A	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Minnesota B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	Cornell-UG	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Wilson	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10
Harvard	Amherst A	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Brown A	10	10	0	20
Truman State	WashU A	10	0	0	10
British Columbia A	Alberta	10	0	0	10
British Columbia C	British Columbia B	10	10	0	20
British Columbia D	Washington B	10	0	10	20
Washington A	Simon Fraser	10	0	0	10
McGill D	UCO	10	0	0	10
Northwestern B	Ohio	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	Rose State	10	10	10	30
Auburn A	Alabama B	10	0	10	20
Alabama A	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Huntsville B	10	0	10	20
Vanderbilt B	UAB A	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10	20
City St George's A	Imperial C	10	0	0	10
Birmingham A	LSE A	10	0	0	10
Bristol A	Cambridge A	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Sheffield A	10	0	0	10
Manchester A	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Oxford B	10	0	10	20
Durham A	Sheffield B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge B	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
Cornell-DII	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
RIT B	RIT A	10	10	0	20