Here's a fairly bad one I just found:
VCU Open 2009
ACF Nationals 201113. In his Autobiography, this philosopher priviliged Plato, Tacitus, Francis Bacon, and Grotius above all other
thinkers, and he modeled his own efforts after Grotius, whose work led him to conduct the research that led to
the writing of a treatise which pondered the question of whether justice is natural or conventional. This thinker
juxtaposed the arts of "criticism" and "topics" in the first of his major anti-Cartesian works, On the Study
Methods of Our Time, and later added to his work Universal Right a volume entitled De constantia
jurisprudentis, this first chapter of which would lend its title to this man's most famous work. More famously,
this man is famous for a work which reformulated the verum factum principle he himself had proposed in his On
the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians and advanced the notion of three universal principles, those of religion,
marriage, and burial. For ten points, identify this thinker who proposed a cyclical theory of history in his most
famous work, The New Science.
ANSWER: Giambattista Vico
It literally changes the spelling of "privileged" and nothing else lmao13. In his Autobiography, this philosopher privileged Plato, Tacitus, Francis Bacon, and Grotius above all other
thinkers, and he modeled his own efforts after Grotius, whose work led him to conduct the research that led to
the writing of a treatise which pondered the question of whether justice is natural or conventional. This thinker
juxtaposed the arts of "criticism" and "topics" in the first of his major anti-Cartesian works, On the Study
Methods of Our Time, and later added to his work Universal Right a volume entitled De constantia
jurisprudentis, this first chapter of which would lend its title to this man's most famous work. More famously,
this man is famous for a work which reformulated the verum factum principle he himself had proposed in his On
the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians and advanced the notion of three universal principles, those of religion,
marriage, and burial. For ten points, identify this thinker who proposed a cyclical theory of history in his most
famous work, The New Science.
ANSWER: Giambattista Vico