Quizbowl Philosophy Texts I

life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”

Leviathan

three types of commonwealth

Leviathan

“the war of all against all”

Leviathan

Confederacy of Deceivers

Leviathan

competition, diffidence, and glory-seeking

Leviathan

controversies involving Cardinal Bellarmine

Leviathan

stealing a ribbon and framing a servant for the crime

Confessions

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”

The Social Contract

Slaves submit out of fear for masters

The Social Contract

Monarchies work best in hot climates

The Social Contract

Citizens viewed as separate body from government

The Social Contract

"force does not create right”

The Social Contract

population growth is the "surest mark" of a good government

The Social Contract

“noble savage”

Discourse on Inequality

first man “who, having fenced in a piece of land, said 'This is mine.’”

Discourse on Inequality

Natural vs. moral types

Discourse on Inequality

Tightrope walker

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Camel, lion, and child

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Ubermensch

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Democracy linked to tarantulas

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Accuses priests of seeing life as torture

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Mastery to dying at right time

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Originated in “The Gay Science”

“God is dead”

“Madman” suggests that he “took an ocean voyage”

“God is dead”

Self-praising sections

Ecce Homo

Ship of State

The Republic

Likens Sun to the Form of Good

The Republic

Opens by asking for definition of justice

The Republic

“everyman” narrates the journey of dead souls to the spindle of Necessity

The Republic

analogy of a statue with purple eyes

The Republic

“noble lies”

The Republic

Ship of Fools

The Republic

Aristocracy -> tyranny thru choosing wrong successors

The Republic

4 models of the world

The Republic

Analogy of the Divided Line

The Republic

refuses Crito’s plea to escape prison

Apology

compares himself to gadfly

Apology

white-clothed woman tells him, “on the third day you will go to fertile Phthia”

Crito

“has the ship arrived...at whose arrival I am to die?”

Crito

in jail by the "implied contract"

Crito

Nature of love

Symposium

Set at Athenian drinking party

Symposium

Aristophanes’ creation myth

Symposium

Alcibiades’ drunken speech about attempted seduction of Socrates

Symposium

tragedian Agathon hosts

Symposium

Phaedrus

Symposium

series of letters from Judge William to “A”

Either/Or

“crop rotation”

Either/Or

Cordelia pursued by Johannes Climacus

Either/Or

Boredom is the greatest evil

Either/Or

“doubts that the external is the internal and the internal the external”

Either/Or

“dizziness of freedom”

The Concept of Anxiety

Five proofs for the existence of God

Summa Theologica

there must be an unmoved mover

Summa Theologica

Second section, “Ethics”

Summa Theologica

Three characteristics of just war

Summa Theologica

natural law is the participation of the eternal law

Summa Theologica

Monks and bishops in state of perfection

Summa Theologica

should emulate Cesare Borgia

The Prince

“lady fortune must be overcome by force”

The Prince

Argues against use of mercenaries

The Prince

Invisible hand

The Wealth of Nations

motives of the butcher, brewer and baker

The Wealth of Nations

Pin factory

The Wealth of Nations

Section "Of Human Bondage”

Ethics

treat "human actions and desires" like "lines, planes, and bodies"

Ethics

defines the affectus as the panthema anim

Ethics

divided nature into “substances,” “attributes,” and “modes”

Ethics

Preface w/ 15 axiomatic propositions

Ethics

nine kinds of “ground”

The Art of War

Compares virtue to the North Star

The Analects

Li and Ren

The Analects

Zhang Yu formed

The Analects

Chaos formed from collapse of music

The Analects

Criticism abt eight lines of dancers

The Analects

Tabula rasa

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Observer (in)dependent properties

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Molyneux's problem

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Introduced term “sortal”

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Soul of prince and cobbler switch places

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Species and genus are nominal essences

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Of The Kingdom of Darkness” section

Leviathan

“Artificial person”

Leviathan

Cover by Abraham Bosse

Leviathan

Fear of violent death drives politics

Leviathan

Religious law subordinate to civil law

Leviathan

19 “laws of nature” vs 1 “right of nature”

Leviathan

“Natural light”

Meditations on First Philosophy

“Transcendental Doctrine of Method/Ethics”

Critique of Pure Reason

“The Refutation of Idealism”

Critique of Pure Reason

“primitive accumulation”

Das Kapital

“mitigated jails”

Das Kapital

“Banality of evil”

Eichmann in Jerusalem

failed to recognize the “golden rule”

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Use of “officialese”

Eichmann in Jerusalem

humans were perfect circles that were cleaved in two

Symposium

Refers to St. Augustine as “The Theologian”

Summa Theologica

Way of the fox and of the lion

The Prince

“The Master said” opens many lines

The Analects

Divided into 20 sections

The Analects