Round 2: Tossup 10
A treatise with this name compares intention to the truth value of whether Socrates is seated and claims a chained monk forced to have sex is not sinning for drawing pleasure. That Abelard treatise with this title, which further separates mental vice from holding God in contempt with sin, is also called “Know Yourself.” A book with this name expanded on the writer’s unpublished “A Short Treatise on God…” by contrasting “natura naturans” with “natura naturata.” A treatise with this name describes a striving to exist that drives the human passions called conatus. “Everything which exists, exists either in itself or in something else” is the first axiom of a book of this title inspired by the work of Euclid. For 10 points, Spinoza explains his pantheistic system in a treatise with what name, referencing a branch of philosophy? ■END■
ANSWER: Ethics [or Ethica; accept Spinoza’s Ethics; accept Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order; accept “Know Yourself” until read; accept “Scito te ipsum” until “Know Yourself” is read]
<George Tech C, Philosophy> | Packet I - McGill B, UCLA A, Michigan B, Georgia Tech C, Southampton B
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