Question

This thinker describes a drunk man as being “led along, stumbling, by a beardless boy” while his soul is moist. According to Diogenes Laertius, this thinker hoped that familiarity would “breed contempt” when he deposited his writings at a temple of Artemis. A book by Shimon Malin is titled for this thinker’s claim that “nature loves to hide.” It’s not Empedocles, but this thinker wrote of fire transforming to water transforming to earth in his “downward path,” and championed the unity of strife and justice. Often given the epithet “the obscure” for his self-contradictory statements, this pre-Socratic philosopher (10[1])from Ephesus promoted the idea of ekpyrosis (“eck-pie-ROH-siss”), or cycles of conflagration and fire. For 10 points, name this “weeping” philosopher, who declared “all things flow” and (10[1])that one cannot (10[1])step in the same river twice. ■END■

ANSWER: Heraclitus
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
James McCurleyHarvard BYale B9710
Jason HongBrown ABrandeis A12310
Joy AnHarvard ATufts B12610

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2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU01/27/2024Y10%0%0%0.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska01/27/2024Y683%0%0%126.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State01/27/2024Y367%0%33%98.50
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial01/27/2024Y8100%0%38%111.38
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt01/27/2024Y1100%0%100%133.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT01/27/2024Y3100%0%0%115.33