My coach is making me help with philosophy
My coach is making me help with philosophy
So, I'm the best at quiz bowl on my team, and my coach wants me to help the freshmen and sophomores with philosophers/philosophy even though I really don't know much beyond the basics. Why am I here, do you ask? I need some help. First off, I am going to have to ask the kind folks here to give me a list of the most common philosophers in quiz bowl. This is a list of mainly the western philosophers, like the Greeks, but also includes the most important modern ones like Kierkegaard and Sartre. What I'm talking about here is essentially a frequency list of 30 philosophers.
Then I am going to divide these philosophers up and assign them to these little peons I'm in charge of. I'm going to introduce them to the concept of quiz bowl -- that is, I'm going to tell them to write 5-7 line questions on these philosophers with clues in descending order of difficulty. I'm going to have them report back to me with their questions and if I don't like what they've done I'm going to revise them and tell them what they've done wrong, then I'm going to set them free and have them do it again. They'll come back and we'll hold practice basically on the questions they wrote. If I'm not pleased I'll make powerpoints on these philosophers and I'll have them take notes on them until their fingers fall off and then all will be well.
But first. . . I need some philosophers. Will anyone be willing to assist me?
Then I am going to divide these philosophers up and assign them to these little peons I'm in charge of. I'm going to introduce them to the concept of quiz bowl -- that is, I'm going to tell them to write 5-7 line questions on these philosophers with clues in descending order of difficulty. I'm going to have them report back to me with their questions and if I don't like what they've done I'm going to revise them and tell them what they've done wrong, then I'm going to set them free and have them do it again. They'll come back and we'll hold practice basically on the questions they wrote. If I'm not pleased I'll make powerpoints on these philosophers and I'll have them take notes on them until their fingers fall off and then all will be well.
But first. . . I need some philosophers. Will anyone be willing to assist me?
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
this list is probably more extensive than you want, but it's a good start
Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
Actually, it's pretty much along the lines of what I wanted. But if anyone has anything else, feel free to post. Thanks a million!
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
I actually have been working on a list pretty similar to what you describe. I'll email it you when I get home.
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
It's a novel, but Sophie's World is good. I need to reread it so I can get some philosophy questions...
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
Just off the top of my head (I may have missed a few)
Sophocles
Plato
Aristotle
Bacon
Locke
Rousseau
Mill
Bentham
Kant
Hobbes
Aquinas
Derrida
Descartes
Chomsky
Berkley
Spinoza
Machiavelli
Hume
Hegel
Nietzsche
Kierkegaard
Sartre
Schopenhauer
James
Pierce
Heidegger
Foucault
Marx
Russel
Wittgenstein
Husserl
Frege
Rawls
Sophocles
Plato
Aristotle
Bacon
Locke
Rousseau
Mill
Bentham
Kant
Hobbes
Aquinas
Derrida
Descartes
Chomsky
Berkley
Spinoza
Machiavelli
Hume
Hegel
Nietzsche
Kierkegaard
Sartre
Schopenhauer
James
Pierce
Heidegger
Foucault
Marx
Russel
Wittgenstein
Husserl
Frege
Rawls
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
I didn't know that Oedipus Rex or Antigone were famous philosophical tracts.Nuclear Densometer Test wrote:Just off the top of my head (I may have missed a few)
Sophocles
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
According to my English teachers, all works of literature are philosophical...quantumfootball wrote:I didn't know that Oedipus Rex or Antigone were famous philosophical tracts.Nuclear Densometer Test wrote:Just off the top of my head (I may have missed a few)
Sophocles
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
Hiyo? I think a typo may have been made and Socrates was meant.
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
That would make much more sense, because I thought it was weird that they didn't have socrates listed at all...Captain Sinico wrote:Hiyo? I think a typo may have been made and Socrates was meant.
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
Yeah, how can you forget this guy?
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
truth.Captain Sinico wrote:Hiyo? I think a typo may have been made and Socrates was meant.
MaS
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
John Henry Newman.
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
Maybe it's just me, but some of these guys (i.e. John Rawls and Jacques Derrida) I've only heard as like third part bonuses. I think all the big names are covered here though.Nuclear Densometer Test wrote:Just off the top of my head (I may have missed a few)
Sophocles
Plato
Aristotle
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Locke
Rousseau
Mill
Bentham
Kant
Hobbes
Aquinas
Derrida
Descartes
Chomsky
Berkley
Spinoza
Machiavelli
Hume
Hegel
Nietzsche
Kierkegaard
Sartre
Schopenhauer
James
Pierce
Heidegger
Foucault
Marx
Russel
Wittgenstein
Husserl
Frege
Rawls
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That's "Peirce" by the way, pronounced like "purse."Nuclear Densometer Test wrote:Just off the top of my head (I may have missed a few)
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
Yeah, a guy that almost only ever comes up in high school as a relatively infrequent clue about Edward Elgar is totally a legitimate suggestion for people to learn about if they want to get lots of points in high school quizbowl.KHAAAAN please wrote:John Henry Newman.
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Also noted for having a freaking awesome beardCarangoides ciliarius wrote:That's "Peirce" by the way, pronounced like "purse."Nuclear Densometer Test wrote:Just off the top of my head (I may have missed a few)
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Nietzsche beard > Peirce beardjdeliverer wrote:Also noted for having a freaking awesome beardCarangoides ciliarius wrote:That's "Peirce" by the way, pronounced like "purse."Nuclear Densometer Test wrote:Just off the top of my head (I may have missed a few)
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
Karl Marx had the one beard to rule them all.
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
All of the pictures I have seen only show Nietzsche with a mustache, so I would go with Peirce.ryandillon wrote:Nietzsche beard > Peirce beardjdeliverer wrote:Also noted for having a freaking awesome beardCarangoides ciliarius wrote:That's "Peirce" by the way, pronounced like "purse."Nuclear Densometer Test wrote:Just off the top of my head (I may have missed a few)
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All the philosophy you'll ever need.
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
But Nietzsche had quite the 'stache to trump those of other philosophers.
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
All joking aside, this list looks more or less fine, although it seems a bit light on ancient philosopher IMO.Sophocles
Plato
Aristotle
Bacon
Locke
Rousseau
Mill
Bentham
Kant
Hobbes
Aquinas
Derrida
Descartes
Chomsky
Berkley
Spinoza
Machiavelli
Hume
Hegel
Nietzsche
Kierkegaard
Sartre
Schopenhauer
James
Pierce
Heidegger
Foucault
Marx
Russel
Wittgenstein
Husserl
Frege
Rawls
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Re: My coach is making me help with philosophy
Oh, Engels was also pretty well endowed.grapesmoker wrote:Karl Marx had the one beard to rule them all.
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