Packet 5: Bonus 17

In the pamphlet Pope: A Metaphysician, the members of the Prussian Royal Academy are mocked for dishonoring this founder of theirs by comparing him to Alexander Pope. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this German philosopher whose optimistic worldview is usually simplified to the proposition that “we live in the best of all possible worlds.”
ANSWER: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
[10h] These two philosophers anonymously published Pope: A Metaphysician. A game of chess during their first meeting inspired one of them to depict a game of chess with Saladin in a play.
ANSWER: Moses Mendelssohn AND Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
[10m] This thinker praised the circuitous thought of Lessing, but wrote that his distance “will not let you enter into a direct relation with him.” This 19th-century thinker proposed that aesthetes ward off boredom by engaging in “crop rotation.”
ANSWER: Søren Kierkegaard
<Indiana, Philosophy> | E. Prelims 5 - Indiana + Vanderbilt + MIT

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BrownStanford B1001020EM
BruinNorthwestern A10101030EHM
Columbia AVirginia100010E
GeorgetownChicago A100010E
Georgia Tech AOhio State100010E
Georgia Tech CToronto B1001020EM
HarvardTexas1001020EM
Johns HopkinsUC Berkeley B1001020EM
Maryland AWaterloo100010E
MichiganIllinois B1001020EM
MinnesotaToronto A1001020EM
NYU AIllinois A10101030EHM
Penn StatePurdue1010020EH
PittsburghColumbia B1001020EM
RutgersBritish Columbia100010E
Stanford AChicago B100010E
UC Berkeley AUCF10101030EHM
Virginia TechUCLA1001020EM

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Main Site2026-04-17✓1818.33100%61%22%