Question
This book uses the example of the Sophists to argue that people who believe they understand the world logically can be easily manipulated. This book imagines King Charles II asking the Royal Society why a dead fish weighs more than a live one to claim that theories in the social sciences are no longer predictive. This book laments the loss of unifying commonplaces that existed in the “predecessor culture.” Inspired by A Canticle for Leibowitz, this book opens by describing a society where words like (*) “neutrinos” and “gravity” are used senselessly after understanding of science disappears. After describing the abolition of taboos in Polynesia, this book calls Nietzsche “the King Kamehameha II of the European tradition.” This book criticizes the Enlightenment’s “moral project” and its abandonment of teleology. For 10 points, name this book defending Aristotelian ethics by Alasdair MacIntyre. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 74 | 15 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 95 | 10 |
Liam Kusalik | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 110 | 10 |
Benjamin Chapman | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 138 | 10 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 140 | 0 |
Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 140 | 0 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 96.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 20% | 0% | 104.25 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 122.60 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 0% | 95.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 130.33 |