Packet 4: Bonus 12
Volume I of this thinker’s masterwork eschews scripture and draws only on human reason. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 14th-century thinker who identified the “legislator” with “the people.” This thinker’s refutation of the pope’s “plenitude of power” in Defender of the Peace has been read as an early work of democratic theory.
ANSWER: Marsilius of Padua [or Marsiglio da Padova; reject “Marsilio Ficino”]
[10e] Marsilius took refuge at the court of Ludwig of Bavaria with this other Franciscan, whose Dialogue supported the emperor’s right to depose heretical popes. The parsimony principle is often attributed to this English thinker.
ANSWER: William of Ockham [or Gulielmus Occamus; accept Occam’s razor; prompt on William or Gulielmus]
[10m] Marsilius opined that the pope could be a heretic by citing this 1302 bull, which ascribes the power of “two swords” to the papacy. Dante’s De Monarchia responds to this assertion of temporal supremacy by Boniface VIII.
ANSWER: Unam Sanctam
<Editors, Philosophy> | D. Prelims 4 - Toronto B + Harvard + Michigan + Minnesota
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 12.86 | 91% | 33% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Bruin | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cambridge | UCF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech B | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Northwestern B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois B | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Indiana | Pittsburgh | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Johns Hopkins | Brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Ohio State | Georgetown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Swarthmore | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Texas | WashU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| UC Berkeley A | North Carolina | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| UC Berkeley B | Stanford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia Tech | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Waterloo | MIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 12.86 | 91% | 33% | 5% |