Question
Gotthold Lessing’s deathbed confession about his views on the ideas of this philosopher led to a controversy named for one of his potential beliefs. For 10 points each:
[10e] The controversy began with Friedrich Jacobi and another philosopher disagreeing about Lessing’s following of this Dutch-Jewish philosopher, the author of Ethics.
ANSWER: Baruch Spinoza [or Benedict Spinoza or Benedictus de Spinoza or Baruch Espinosa]
[10m] The controversy is named after this belief about the nature of God that is sometimes ascribed to Spinoza because of his view that God is Natura naturans.
ANSWER: pantheism [accept pantheism controversy]
[10h] Jacobi’s opponent was this Jewish philosopher, the basis of Lessing’s character Nathan the Wise. This thinker wrote the Morgenstunden during the controversy and argued for the immortality of the soul in his book Phaedon.
ANSWER: Moses Mendelssohn
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 86% | 14% | 29% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 22% | 44% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 10.00 | 75% | 13% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 7.14 | 57% | 0% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 13% | 38% |
Data
| Bard A | Rowan A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Princeton A | Haverford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Johns Hopkins B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Penn B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers C | Penn State B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |