hedonism - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

In a dialogue, this position is briefly analyzed with a four-step “divine method” that was handed down by “some Prometheus.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this position attacked with Platonic animal analogies such as an oyster in the Philebus and the constantly-defecating “gully-bird” in the Gorgias. This was the signature position of the Cyrenaic school.

ANSWER: hedonism [or hedonists; prompt on descriptions of seeking pleasure or pleasure being the highest or only good]

[10e] The anti-hedonist founder of this school often yelled “I would rather go mad than feel pleasure!” Antisthenes founded this school, which included Hipparchia and her barrel-dwelling husband.

ANSWER: Cynicism [or Cynics]

[10h] One of the Cynic Letters of this thinker complains about excessive pursuit of pleasure. The 18th-century world federalist Baron de Cloots renamed himself after this Scythian philosopher who laughed at Solon’s constitution.

ANSWER: Anacharsis [accept Anacharsis Cloots]

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Berkeley A	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Claremont Colleges	McGill	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Minnesota A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech	Texas	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Illinois	Brown	0	10	0	10
Indiana	Virginia	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Maryland	Vanderbilt	10	10	0	20
North Carolina A	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Penn	Northwestern	0	10	0	10
Rutgers	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
South Carolina	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Florida	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	Michigan	0	10	0	10
Waterloo	Cornell A	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Arizona State	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Truman State	0	0	0	0

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	20	10.50	90%	10%	5%