Question
This book outlines notions of the “true” and the “certain,” which combine with their appropriate disciplines to form the “new critical art” of this book’s author. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this book of Enlightenment philosophy that 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 Meditations on First Philosophy presented “clear and direct ideas” like the Cogito.
ANSWER: René Descartes
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 75% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| North Carolina B | South Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |