Question
In a dialogue, this position is briefly analyzed with a four-step “divine method” that was handed down by “some Prometheus.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this position attacked with Platonic animal analogies such as an oyster in the Philebus and the constantly-defecating “gully-bird” in the Gorgias. This was the signature position of the Cyrenaic school.
ANSWER: hedonism [or hedonists; prompt on descriptions of seeking pleasure or pleasure being the highest or only good]
[10e] The anti-hedonist founder of this school often yelled “I would rather go mad than feel pleasure!” Antisthenes founded this school, which included Hipparchia and her barrel-dwelling husband.
ANSWER: Cynicism [or Cynics]
[10h] One of the Cynic Letters of this thinker complains about excessive pursuit of pleasure. The 18th-century world federalist Baron de Cloots renamed himself after this Scythian philosopher who laughed at Solon’s constitution.
ANSWER: Anacharsis [accept Anacharsis Cloots]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 20 | 10.50 | 90% | 10% | 5% |
Data
| Illinois | Brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | McGill | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Berkeley A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech | Texas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley B | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Kentucky | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Florida | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |