Question
Martin Luther King, Jr. claimed that his “basic philosophical position” was a form of this stance advocated by the Boston Personalists. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this philosophical position that, broadly, holds reality to be the product of thought.
ANSWER: idealism [or idealists; accept specific strands such as personal idealism]
[10m] King took up this idealist philosopher’s idea of an agapic “Beloved Community.” This Harvard philosopher responded to the California Personalists in The Conception of God and wrote The Problem of Christianity.
ANSWER: Josiah Royce
[10h] Royce’s “Beloved Community” was developed by this mentor of King’s in The Search for Common Ground. King is reputed to have always traveled with a copy of this theologian’s magnum opus, Jesus and the Disinherited.
ANSWER: Howard Thurman [or Howard Washington Thurman]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 21 | 10.00 | 62% | 38% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell A | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan | Chicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Illinois | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| WUSTL B | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harvard | Duke | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Ottawa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Minnesota B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | NYU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina | Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stanford | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Waterloo | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |