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A philosopher from this school named Theodorus the Atheist associated joy with knowledge and grief with ignorance. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this hedonistic school of thought that differed from the Epicureans by preferring present pleasures to future ones. This school was founded by Socrates’s pupil Aristippus.
ANSWER: Cyrenaic School [or Cyrenaics (“see-ruh-NAY-icks”); accept answers indicating a school of philosophy from Cyrene (“sigh-REE-nee”)]
[10h] Aristippus was succeeded as leader of the Cyrenaic school by his daughter, who shared her name with this concept. In the Nicomachean Ethics, this concept is defined as the disposition to choose and act at the rational mean between excess and deficiency.
ANSWER: arete (“ah-reh-TAY”) [or Arete of Cyrene]
[10e] Cyrenaic philosopher Hegesias thought that this state was impossible to achieve, meaning the best one can do is to avoid pain. This Greek word usually rendered as “happiness” or “flourishing” is the highest good in Aristotelian ethics.
ANSWER: eudaimonia
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaNorth Carolina1001020ME
Chicago AOhio State1001020ME
Columbia AUCF001010E
CornellColumbia B001010E
Georgia Tech BMinnesota001010E
HarvardGeorgetown1001020ME
Illinois BToronto B0000
Johns HopkinsNorthwestern B001010E
MITIndiana1001020ME
MichiganGeorgia Tech C1001020ME
NYU AStanford B1001020ME
PittsburghMaryland A001010E
PurdueUCLA0000
RutgersUC Berkeley A0000
Stanford ABruin1001020ME
SwarthmoreTexas001010E
Toronto AMaryland B001010E
VanderbiltIllinois A001010E
VirginiaCambridge10101030MHE
WashUGeorgia Tech A10101030MHE
WaterlooNYU B001010E

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