September 2025 Newsletter: TKEthics Grand Final Results and More

Dear MPI Subscriber,

This is our first monthly newsletter. They will be infrequent, and entirely useful!

First: here are the results of the latest competition!

2025 TKEthics International Grand Final Results

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 2025 TKE Finals. Just qualifying for this event is already a very impressive achievement, and all of the judges were blown away by the high level of ethical discourse and critical thinking on display.

Here are the top 8 teams, in order:

• Arendt (Dwight-Englewood School) — Gold Medal

• Aristotle (DebateGo) — Silver Medal

• Butler (BLUBC Education) — Bronze Medal

• Locke (GE-Elite)

• Hobbes (Nueva School)

• Socrates (WLSA Shanghai Academy)

• Nagarjuna (Archimedean Upper Conservatory)

• Marx (Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, San Francisco, CA)

Honorable Mentions: Arendt (x3), Butler, Locke, Nagarjuna, Kant, Rousseau, Spinoza.

We hope to see you at the Fall event this November 8th!

Philosophy Joke of the Week:

A flight attendant asks René Descartes: “Would you like a glass of water?”

Descartes replies: “I think not!”… and suddenly disappears in a puff of logic!

Please submit your own joke by emailing Archie Stapleton at astapleton@modusponensinstitute.com