Question
An essay claims that this concept allowed the author of Discourse on Voluntary Servitude to achieve more than the “power and the fame to which he had aspired.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this concept that Michel de Montaigne imagined encountering while planting cabbages in an essay titled for a maxim that equates philosophizing with learning about this concept.
ANSWER: death [or word forms like dying or to die; or la mort; accept paraphrases of “That to philosophize is to learn to die”]
[10e] Montaigne reflected on the death of Étienne de La Boétie (“bo-ay-SEE”) in an essay titled for this relationship. Aristotle referred to the affection in this type of relationship as philia.
ANSWER: friendship [or amitié; or brotherly love; prompt on love]
[10h] Paralleling his own cultivation of La Boétie’s legacy, Montaigne was promoted posthumously by this adopted daughter of his. She published several editions of the Essays and wrote The Equality of Men and Women.
ANSWER: Marie de Gournay
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 18 | 8.89 | 50% | 39% | 0% |
Data
| Toronto A | Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown | Yale A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Claremont Colleges | Florida | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Indiana | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill | Kentucky | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Johns Hopkins | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn | Duke | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue | Texas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Waterloo | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |