Question
An analysis of this dialogue discusses a woman named Phaedra who attempts to maximize her bagel eating. The technē-tuchē (“TEK-nee TY-kee”) antithesis is introduced in that analysis of this dialogue, which comprises the first Plato chapter in Martha Nussbaum’s The Fragility of Goodness. A character in this dialogue affirms that qualities like justice and temperance are not like parts of a lump of gold, but rather like features of a face. In this dialogue, Socrates argues that while it is possible to have boldness or confidence without wisdom, one cannot have courage without wisdom. This dialogue, which is set in the house of Callias, includes an analysis of poetry by Simonides to help settle the question of whether virtue is teachable. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue titled for a Sophist who claimed that “man is the measure of all things.” ■END■
Summary
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Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Harvard | 40 | -5 |
Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Chicago A | 45 | -5 |
Mitch McCullar | Penn State | LSE | 70 | 10 |
Rasheeq Azad | North Carolina A | Rutgers | 77 | -5 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Vanderbilt | 91 | -5 |
Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Ottawa | 101 | 10 |
Amogh Kulkarni | Georgia State | Florida | 114 | -5 |
Olin Bose | Columbia B | Winona State | 115 | -5 |
Chris Sims | Northwestern | Indiana | 118 | -5 |
Nathan Zhang | Cornell A | Johns Hopkins | 118 | -5 |
Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | Columbia A | 121 | -5 |
Orion Keller | Virginia Tech | MIT | 121 | -5 |
Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech | Iowa State | 129 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo A | Stanford | 129 | -5 |
Charles Hang | WUSTL A | Toronto A | 129 | -5 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan | RIT | 132 | -5 |
Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | British Columbia | 132 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Minnesota | Toronto C | 135 | 10 |
Jaik Havlick | Arizona State | Yale | 138 | 10 |
Michael Kearney | Harvard | Chicago B | 138 | 10 |
Charles Young | Columbia A | UC Berkeley A | 140 | 0 |
Henry Bon | Winona State | Columbia B | 140 | 0 |
Leo Law | Florida | Georgia State | 140 | 0 |
John Marvin | Chicago A | Illinois A | 140 | 10 |
Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana | Northwestern | 140 | 10 |
Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Georgia Tech | 140 | 0 |
Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins | Cornell A | 140 | 0 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT | Virginia Tech | 140 | 0 |
Isaac Mammel | Maryland | Ohio State | 140 | 0 |
Roxanne Tang | Ohio State | Maryland | 140 | 0 |
Soren Heydari | North Carolina B | Cornell B | 140 | 0 |
Yared Tadesse | Cornell B | North Carolina B | 140 | 0 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Michigan | 140 | 0 |
Aum Mundhe | Rutgers | North Carolina A | 140 | 10 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford | Waterloo A | 140 | 10 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas | Toronto B | 140 | 10 |
Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | WUSTL A | 140 | 10 |
Arjun Kala | Illinois B | UCF | 140 | 0 |
Alexander Nichols | UCF | Illinois B | 140 | 0 |
Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt | Virginia | 140 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | NYU | WUSTL B | 140 | 10 |