Question
This book outlines notions of the “true” and the “certain,” which combine with their appropriate disciplines to form this book’s author’s “new critical art”. For 10 points each,
[10h] Name this book of Enlightenment philosophy which presents a progression from barbarism to civilization as part of a cyclical view of history.
ANSWER: The New Science (by Giambattista Vico)
[10m] Vico’s “new critical art” uses the true and the certain to follow human thought back to a shared mental dictionary of wisdom, which is given this name. A school of Scottish enlightenment philosophy that included Thomas Reid took its name from this two-word concept.
ANSWER: common sense [or sensus communis]
[10e] Vico’s insistence that the true and the certain must be combined was directed against this French thinker, whose Meditation on First Philosophy presented “clear and direct ideas” like the Cogito.
ANSWER: Rene Descartes
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Stanford A | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |