Question
Walter Benjamin wrote that statements of this kind “cannot be applied to a specific situation” but “have a kind of magical character” to “transform the situation” in a short essay on them. For 10 points:
[10e] Paremiology studies what statements, a Biblical book of which joins the Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes among those credited to King Solomon?
ANSWER: proverbs
[10m] Agur’s Biblical question “Who has ascended to heaven?” is paralleled by a proverb in the last stanza of an Akkadian dialogue named for this philosophical attitude.. Hegesias and Buddhist versions of this attitude were cited in a namesake controversy sparked by the posthumous fame of the author of Parerga and Paralipomena.
ANSWER: pessimism
[10h] The opening of the Biblical Proverbs mirrors the opening dedication of this Fifth Dynasty vizier’s forty-three maxims, for which he has been championed as the first philosopher.
ANSWER: Ptahhotep I [or Ptahhotpe]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |