Question
In this work, it is argued that since nothing becomes or changes without cause, the universe must have been created by a demiurge. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this work that envisions the universe as a receptacle filled with four elements, with each element corresponding to a geometric body.
ANSWER: Timaeus [or Timaios]
[10e] The Timaeus is a dialogue by this philosopher.
ANSWER: Plato [or Platon]
[10h] In a cryptic passage, Timaeus describes how the demiurge created this thing by combining Existence, Sameness, and Difference, all of which are intermediate between divisible and indivisible forms.
ANSWER: world-soul [or anima mundi; or psychè kósmou; prompt on soul or anima or psychè; reject “world”]
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Summary
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| Claremont A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida B | Duke A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |