humanism - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

Question

The debate between scholars Paul Kristeller and Eugenio Garin over this worldview was informed by Martin Heidegger’s response to another philosopher regarding this stance. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this position that Heidegger distanced himself from in a letter on it. This is the second philosophical view in the title of a lecture that claimed “existence precedes essence.”

ANSWER: humanism [accept Renaissance humanism; accept “Letter on Humanism” or Über den Humanismus or Existentialism Is a Humanism or L’existentialisme est un humanisme] (Existentialism Is a Humanism is by Jean-Paul Sartre)

[10e] Heidegger criticized humanism from this country as being a revival of Greek civilization. Humanist thinkers from this modern-day country include Pico della Mirandola and a polymath who drew the Vitruvian Man.

ANSWER: Italy [accept Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana]

[10h] With Kristeller and John Herman Randall Jr., this philosopher edited a book on Renaissance philosophy. This neo-Kantian, who debated Heidegger at Davos (“da-VOSE”), wrote The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms.

ANSWER: Ernst Cassirer (“ka-SEER-ur”) [or Ernst Alfred Cassirer]

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2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
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