Round 9: Tossup 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. This (10[1])author of Ecce Homo introduced his idea (10[1])of testing idols 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 and introduced the idea that “God is dead… (10[1])And we have killed him.” (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Friedrich Nietzsche
<Philosophy, Camden Williams> | VAULT II Packet 09
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-246100%0%33%78.17
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-133100%0%0%76.33
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-134100%0%0%82.00
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-135100%20%0%56.40
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-243100%0%0%63.33
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-244100%0%25%90.00
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-302100%0%0%82.50
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-195100%0%20%90.20
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-178100%25%0%56.25