Packet 6: Tossup 7

This thinker critiqued aesthetic egoism with a man whose desire to avoid commitment causes him to treat Cordelia (-5[1])as a means. (15[2])An (15[1])“Exordium” (15[1])opens a work (15[1])by this thinker (15[3])that uses Greek tragedy to argue that an individual ruler’s (15[1])telos are ultimately (-5[1])the good of the state. (-5[2])This thinker (15[1])was inspired by his relationship (-5[1])with Regine Olsen (-5[1])to include the (*) “Diary of a Seducer” in a work (10[1])contrasting (10[2])aesthetic and (10[1])ethical living. This thinker distinguished between the “knight of infinite resignation” (10[3])and the “knight (10[1])of (10[1])faith” (-5[1])in an analysis (10[1])of Abraham’s willingness (10[1])to sacrifice Isaac. (10[2])For 10 (10[1])points, name (10[1])this Danish philosopher (10[3])who wrote (10[1])the works (10[4])Either/Or and (10[1])Fear and Trembling. (10[2])■END■ (10[5]0[3])

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