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Chemistry / Elements

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Plato 11x 9.1% stumper $564 avg J:1 DJ:10

DJ $200 1994 This Greek wrote his dialogues to help men understand the good life & to goad them into living it

J $500 1989 Aristocles was the real name of this Athenian known for his "Dialogues"

DJ $1,500 DD 2017 When this philosopher died around 347 B.C., his nephew Speusippus took over the Academy

Soren Kierkegaard 10x 10.0% stumper $1,040 avg DJ:10

DJ $400 1992 This 19th century Danish philosopher was known to his followers as "S.K."

DJ $800 2014 This Dane proposed that people go through 3 stages: the aesthetic, the ethical & the religious

DJ $1,000 DD 1994 This religious philosopher was born in Copenhagen on May 5, 1813

Rene Descartes 10x $667 avg J:1 DJ:8

J $200 2010 You shouldn't put this French "Discourse on Method" author before the horse

DJ $800 2021 His 17th century "Discourse on Method" contained radical ideas of the self exemplified by the dictum "Cogito ergo sum"

DJ $2,000 2001 Jacques Lacan revised this philosopher's idea as "Where I think, 'I think, therefore I am', that is where I am not"

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John Locke 6x 33.3% stumper $1,500 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $800 2010 The argument that the mind at birth is a blank slate is "key" to his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"

DJ $1,000 1989 His "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" says the mind is a tabula rasa, or clean slate, at birth

DJ $1,600 2019 This English liberal philosopher and author of two treatises on government helped inspire the Declaration of Independence

ethics 6x $1,233 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 1997 Abortion & euthanasia are current topics in this study of the principles of human conduct

DJ $600 1995 It's the branch of philosophy that deals with human conduct & the differences between right & wrong

DJ $1,200 2015 Meta-, normative & applied are the 3 main types of this philosophy branch concerned with human conduct & its moral value

Jean-Paul Sartre 6x $733 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 2005 This existentialist gave the world "Nausea", a philosophical novel, in 1938

DJ $600 1994 This existentialist examined Marxism in his "Critique de la Raison Dialectique"

DJ $1,200 2019 "You can always make something out of what you've been made into" expresses the thought of this French existentialist

Socrates 5x 20.0% stumper $860 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 1994 In Plato's "Crito", this philosopher argues that it's important to live honorably, not just to live

J $1,000 DD 2010 Plato & Xenophon left accounts of this philosopher who wrote nothing himself

DJ $400 1987 It's said Aristophanes' mockery helped lead to a death sentence for this philosopher

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Reason 3 Thomas Aquinas 3 skeptic 3 effect 3 synthesis 2 St. Augustine 2 nature 2 love & hate 2 Hegel 2 hedonism 2 free will 2 the mind 2 deduction 2

Math / Physics

8 answers | 25 clues

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Nietzsche 8x 12.5% stumper $1,125 avg J:1 DJ:7

J $400 1989 Siegel & Shuster gave us the Superman of the comics, & he gave us the philosophical superman

DJ $600 1995 The influence of Schopenhauer can be seen in the early work of this "Beyond Good and Evil" philosopher

DJ $1,200 2016 This 19th-century German philosopher asked "Is man only a blunder of God, or is God only a blunder of man?"

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J $200 1988 This branch of philosophy is concerned with deductive & inductive reasoning

DJ $500 DD 2016 Aristotle came at this branch of reasoning philosophically, but in- 1847 George Boole argued that it's part of math

DJ $1,000 1993 Lewis Carroll's 1896 book on the symbolic type of this branch of philosophy was not intended for children

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aesthetics 3 Spinoza 2 idealism 2 experience 2 Athens 2 Karl Marx 2

Biology / Animals

5 answers | 19 clues

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Confucius 5x $420 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 1989 Though largely unknown when he died, he's been called the most prominent figure in Chinese history

DJ $600 1994 His "Analects" say that the Chun-Tzu is one who practices jen in accordance with li

J $200 1996 In Chinese this influential philosopher is called K'ung Fu-Tzu

utilitarianism 4x 25.0% stumper $1,375 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $500 1996 Jeremy Bentham founded this doctrine whose name comes from utilis, Latin for "useful"

DJ $1,000 1991 Jeremy Bentham & John Stuart Mill developed this, which seeks the greatest good for the most people

DJ $2,000 2021 Mohism, in 5th century B.C. China, argued for doing "what is beneficial to the world", like this -ism that arose in 19th c. Britain

Bertrand Russell 4x $850 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1991 20th c. British philosopher, mathematician & Earl who said knowledge came only from sense

DJ $600 1994 In 1918 this future British earl & co-author of "Principia Mathematica" was jailed for his radical pacifism

DJ $1,600 DD 1995 In 1911 Ludwig Wittgenstein went to Cambridge to study with this philosopher- mathematician

Aristotle 4x $500 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1995 This philosopher & student of Plato was born in Stagira in northern Greece in 384 B.C.

DJ $1,200 2022 "Man is by nature a political animal", wrote this ancient Greek in his "Politics"

J $200 1989 Plato considered him his brightest student and called him the "mind of the school"

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Diogenes 2

Other

9 answers | 19 clues

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cosmology 3 Thoreau 2 Rousseau 2 nihilism 2 Adam Smith 2 the truth 2 Jeremy Bentham 2 belief in God 2 Abelard 2

Astronomy / Space

1 answers | 2 clues

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cynicism 2

Botany / Plants

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the existence of God 2

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