Round 3: Tossup 16

A book by a philosopher with this first name draws from a Richard Burton poem in likening a broken mirror’s shards to different cultures’ truths. This is the first name of a Kant-inspired thinker whose conception of personhood rejects a countryman’s communitarianism for distinguishing between humans and persons. A thinker with this first name sought to help his compatriots understand Euro-Christian and Islamic principles with his ideology of (*) Consciencism. A concept defined (10[1])as “universality plus difference” titles a book subtitled “Ethics in a World of Strangers” by an NYU professor with this first name, who advocated for being a citizen of the world in that book, (10[1])Cosmopolitanism. For 10 points, give this first name of a philosopher surnamed Appiah and Ghana’s first president, surnamed Nkrumah. ■END■

ANSWER: Kwame [accept Kwame Nkrumah; accept Kwame Anthony Appiah; accept Kwame Gyekye; prompt on Anthony by asking “what first name was that philosopher born with?”]
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/20264100%0%0%101.75
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/20262100%0%0%88.00
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/20264100%0%0%102.75
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/20263100%0%0%88.67
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/20255100%0%0%118.20
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/20255100%0%0%99.20
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/20253100%0%0%105.67
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/20254100%0%0%90.25
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20256100%33%33%74.83
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/20255100%20%0%88.80
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/20252100%0%0%94.00