Packet 9: Tossup 1

This thinker critiqued Kant’s noumena and Plato’s Forms to dismantle the contrast (-5[1])between the “apparent world” and “true world.” Viewing the central concepts as rooted in resentment, this thinker (-5[1])sought to (15[1])undergo a “revaluation (15[2])of all values.” This thinker attacked “otherworldly hopes” in a text about a religion’s focus on the “next” after death titled The (*) Antichrist. (10[1])This (10[1])author (10[1])of Ecce (10[1])Homo (10[5])introduced (10[1])his (10[2])idea (10[4])of testing (10[2])idols (10[1])by philosophizing with a hammer in his work The Twilight of the Idols. For 10 points, (10[1])name the German (10[1])philosopher who wrote Beyond (10[1])Good and Evil and introduced (-5[1])the idea that “God is dead… (10[2])And we have killed (10[1])him.” (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

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