Packet 9: Tossup 1

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

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