Packet 8: Tossup 15

This thinker critiqued the idea of the resurrection of the body by imagining a soldier who cannibalizes an Iroquois who had cannibalized Jesuits, thus intermingling the atoms of many men in one body. John Ralston Saul’s book on how instrumental reason came to serve tyrannical power is titled for this thinker’s “bastards.” (-5[1])This thinker found “unity (-5[1])[in the] infinite variety” of the rhino’s skin and tortoise’s shell in a reply to Maupertuis (“mo-pair-TWEE”) that appears in a book modeled on a similar text by Pierre Bayle. An aphorism that this thinker (10[1])made (-5[1])in reply to the anonymous pamphlet (-5[1])The Three Imposters was meant to (10[1])rebuke contemporary (10[1])rivals like Baron d’Holbach (-5[1])(“doll-BOCK”). This thinker critiqued Catholicism, Islam, and Atheism (10[1])in his 1764 Philosophical Dictionary. (10[1]-5[2])For 10 points, what (10[1])philosophe once wrote, “If God did not exist, (10[2]-5[2])it would be necessary (10[1])to (10[1])invent him?” ■END■ (10[6]0[12])

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