Question
Answer the following about the Ethiopian philosopher Zera Yacob, for 10 points each.
[10e] After being accused of revolutionary agitations against this religion, Yacob was forced to flee the city of Axum and live in a cave for two years. In the Confessions, Augustine details his conversion to this religion.
ANSWER: Christianity [accept Roman Catholicism; accept word forms like Christians or Catholics; reject “Ethiopian Orthodox”]
[10m] While living in his cave, Yacob wrote the Hatata, a treatise that emphasizes this concept by referring to it as the “light of the heart.” David Hume argued that this concept is a “slave of the passions.”
ANSWER: human reason [accept rationality]
[10h] Due to its statement that it is seemingly impossible to tell true revelations from pretenders, many modern scholars interpret the Hatata as being opposed to this metaethical view, which states that we should do whatever God orders.
ANSWER: divine command theory [or DCT; or theological voluntarism; prompt on command theory; prompt on voluntarism]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
Data
| Columbia B | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU A | Cornell C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU B | Vassar | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Rowan A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton A | Haverford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Princeton B | Bard A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Yale C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale B | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |