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Question

According to one thinker, the lowest grade of this concept’s objectification is exemplified by natural forces such as gravity and electricity. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this “blind incessant impulse” central to our instincts according to a 1818 book. That book also argues aesthetic contemplation, especially with music, can escape the “blind striving” of this concept.

ANSWER: will [accept The World as Will and Representation; accept Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung]

[10e] The will is central to The World as Will and Representation, a book by this pessimistic German philosopher who also wrote On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.

ANSWER: Arthur Schopenhauer

[10h] According to Schopenhauer, the will is free from all plurality because it lies outside of this principle. G. E. M. Anscombe and Jan Łukasiewicz (“woo-ka-SHEV-itch”) debated whether matter or form was key to Aristotle’s formulation of this principle.

ANSWER: principle of individuation [or principium individuationis]

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	8.33	75%	8%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	8.75	75%	13%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	11.67	92%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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UC Irvine	UCSD C	0	0	0
UCLA A	UCLA B	10	10	20
UCSD A	Arizona State	0	10	10
UCSD B	UC Santa Barbara	10	10	20
Brock	Simon Fraser	0	10	10
UBC B	Guelph	0	10	10
Carleton University	McGill A	0	10	10
McGill B	Toronto G	0	0	0
Ottawa	McMaster A	0	10	10
Toronto B	Waterloo A	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Toronto E	0	10	10
Toronto F	Western B	0	0	0
Toronto Metropolitan	McMaster B	0	10	10
UBC A	Queen's	10	10	20
Toronto D	Western A	0	0	0
Toronto C	Western C	0	10	10
Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	0	10	10
Stanford A	Berkeley D	10	10	20
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	10	10	20
Florida A	Central Florida C	0	0	0
Florida C	Florida B	0	10	10
CWRU A	Michigan C	0	10	10
CWRU B	Michigan State	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Michigan A	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan B	10	10	20
Chicago A	Northwestern B	10	10	20
Chicago B	Indiana C	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago C	0	10	10
Purdue A	Chicago D	10	10	20
Chicago E	Purdue B	0	10	10
Illinois B	Notre Dame B	0	10	10
Indiana B	Indiana A	0	10	10
Illinois A	Northwestern D	0	10	10
Carleton College	Washington A	0	10	10
Washington B	Claremont	0	10	10
Iowa State	Minnesota A	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Missouri B	0	10	10
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	10	10
Texas B	Texas A	0	10	10
WashU B	Alabama B	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee A	0	10	10
Bruin	Georgia Tech C	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Louisville B	0	10	10
Kentucky	Louisville A	0	10	10
Mississipi State	Sewanee	0	0	0
Tennessee B	Vanderbilt B	0	0	0
Alabama A	WashU A	0	10	10
Bristol	Cambridge A	0	10	10
Georgetown	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	0	10	10
Maryland A	Swarthmore	10	10	20
Columbia C	Maryland B	10	10	20
NYU A	Vassar	10	10	20
Columbia A	NYU B	0	10	10
Rutgers A	Columbia B	0	10	10
Catholic	Rutgers B	0	10	10
Rochester	Binghamton A	0	10	10
Cornell C	Binghamton B	0	10	10
Penn State	Cornell B	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Southampton B	10	10	20
Cardiff	City St. George's	0	10	10
Birmingham	Durham	10	10	20
Imperial A	Edinburgh A	0	10	10
Montpellier	Edinburgh B	0	10	10
Imperial B	LSE	0	10	10
Imperial C	Warwick B	0	0	0
Manchester	Oxford A	0	10	10
Oxford B	Oxford C	0	10	10
Southampton A	UCL	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Warwick A	0	10	10
Cornell A	RIT	0	10	10