Derek Duplessie
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy at @assumptionUMA . Above average everydayness.
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nasa’s first images from the james webb telescope are truly beautiful and meaningful
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This may be an inappropriate observation, but it looks like the Bidens are ventriloquizing the Carters here
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So proud of my student! A true profile in integrity and courage.
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Analytic philosophy is a bunch of logicians sharing their intuitions/feelings with each other. Sorta sweet when you think about it.
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Not to brag, but Odysseus’ “Nobody” trick wouldn’t have fooled me
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I’m extremely pleased—startled even—to announce that I’ve accepted a tenure-track position in the Dept. of Philosophy at
@AssumptionUMA
. Of course, this raises a question that should give us all pause: Why do good things happen to mediocre people?
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When I went to St. John’s College I was attracted to the idea of an education that emphasized learning how to ask the right questions. Unfortunately, that very ability has now made me seem rude (and undatable) to the general population.
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At an otherwise insignificant bookstore in Brattleboro VT., a stunning discovery was made:
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Last night I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explain Zeno’s paradox to some guy named Zeno
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Yes, this is very brave. No subscriber to The New Yorker will ever look at Trump quite the same way ever again.
Holy sh*t. This is the New Yorker’s front cover for this month’s magazine. It is perfect & I hope more in the media will depict Trump this way. It’s not hyperbole. It’s the truth & it’s accurate. Bravo to The New Yorker. THIS is how it is done & we need more of it.
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St. John’s has the only approach to grading that’s both beautiful and good: Give narrative feedback, deemphasize grades, even shame those who care about such things, and then take down the raw numerical data and deposit it in a dark and unspeakable place (the Registrar’s office)
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@josh_philosophy
?? Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Smith, Nietzsche, Heidegger, et al
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An eikastic image of the Tulane philosophy crew in Athens (GA)
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I’m in the awkward position of being pro-Vax, anti-science.
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Course proposal: A philosophy of music class that’s just me hogging the aux cord for an hour and 15
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You know, technically the Oedipal desire is the desire NOT to kill one’s father and sleep with one’s mother.
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If Allan Bloom were still teaching in 2023, would he vape in the classroom?
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Many of the worst people in the world suck as a direct consequence of misunderstanding Nietzsche
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Academia somehow attracts both the most and the least “punk” people I’ve ever known
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Also spotted: First ed. Benardete. It’s hard to imagine less subtle cover art (did he draw it himself??)
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They seem to mostly fire professors and hire more administrators
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Academic philosophy seduces you with philosophers who laugh at “scholarship” and then asks you to produce scholarship about it. Sick.
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Found this at a bookstore in VT last summer. $42.50
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I don’t trust you people who seem to be reading a new book every week. A book takes years to read.
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Pleased to announce that my weird essay on the meta-poetry of Euripides’ Bacchae was accepted by and will soon appear in Polis
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I love that one of Plato’s research interests is just “how do dumb people make good art?”
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Yesterday I ran into a former student who told me that my class was the reason he didn’t drop out of college last fall. His story has inspired me to not drop out of college this fall.
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All of the smartest and dumbest people in the world went to St. John’s College
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Kamala’s moment has arrived. It’s important to recognize the moment in time in which we’re living and how that moment in time relates not just to the context of the past moment but, in our present context, to the future moment of time the past moment reveals about the present and
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Aristotle’s De Anima is ultimately about body positivity
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My most anti-Straussian opinion is that Plato is just completely obviously deeper than Xenophon
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The most profound human obligation is simply to pay attention
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Radical politics enacts the tragic sense of life by overestimating the extent of human agency over and against natural necessity, chance, etc., attempting to transform the cosmos into a polis, and then concluding that it’s better to never have been born once limits are recognized
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Only a truly genius-level intellect could have written this: “Intelligent people find stimulation from thinking about problems and doing things, not from marinading in vaguely pleasant sounds like a soggy potato sitting in oil in a dirty oven tray”
None of my intelligent (130+ IQ) friends listen to music regularly. They only listen selectively and rarely e.g. at a business event or a classical piece, but almost never listen spontaneously in their own time. This has been a long term consistent observation, but today
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My favorite comment I ever got during a Don Rag at St. John’s was: “Mr. Duplessie isn’t afraid to be wrong”
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What if the very intellectual habits that make you a good teacher also make you a mediocre scholar?
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The guy who works at the Shell station down the road just casually asked while I was checking out: “Would you say Marx is an economist or a philosopher?” What a time to be alive.
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RIP to my badass and whip smart mom: Ellen Duplessie, 10/6/53–2/24/04
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Philip’s taste is unimpeachable. Burger’s book on the Phaedo, soon to be reissued, is not only one of the deepest readings of the Phaedo, but also one of the deepest accounts of Socratic philosophy—and so, of philosophy. It is the greatest honor of my life to be her student.
Hey Plato people, maybe everyone else knew this, but it looks like St. Augustine's Press is republishing Ronna Burger's Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth in January. This is wildly exciting to me. Burger's work was one of the first major commentaries I read.
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A freshman quoted Strauss in their Machiavelli essay. Is it a dog whistle?
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For Aristotle the crucial thing is the direction of the arrow, for Nietzsche it’s the tautness of the bow
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I’m thinking of dividing my philosophy and literature course into two parts: Part 1: Human possibilities in the face of old problems (Homer, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Tolstoy). Part 2: Human problems in the face of new possibilities (Sci-Fi?)
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I honestly believe that Seth Benardete’s book on The Odyssey is one of the most important works of philosophy published in the last 50 years
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This is how to raise a child that will start out like 15 caves beneath the cave
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My course this semester goes: Apology—>Confessions—>Meditations. Three extremely different occasions for and modes of philosophical self-reflection. Whether or not my students think so, this is v. cool.
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Found in my campus mail today. The kids know me so well :,)
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Can you see the faint outline of the duck my mom etched into the sidewalk in 1964?
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If Aristotle was right in suggesting that “knowledge of what was” is less philosophical than “knowledge of would be,” the history of philosophy must become less historical and more poetical if it wishes to become more philosophical.
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Continental philosophy boldly defies modernity by being neither certain nor useful
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I had every intention of buying a pair of pants at Goodwill until realizing that they were the very same pair I’d donated to the very same Goodwill last week.
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Here’s my dad hanging backstage with Gene Clark circa 1986. Every good opinion, musical and otherwise, I owe to him. I wish I’d had him longer, but I wouldn’t trade him for anyone.
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In terms of vigor and dynamism, Harvey Mansfield is the Willie Nelson of Straussians
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Hot take: Grown ass adults who can’t overcome their shyness are selfish and rude. Interacting with unfamiliar human beings is actually hard for everyone, but we all TRY.
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Oh, so y’all (who did not go to St. John’s) mean to inform me (who did go) that St. John’s is annoying? Stay in your lane!
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I will never forgive Heidegger for unleashing the language “authenticity” on us
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Pleased to announce that my contract at Clemson has been renewed! Meanwhile, a hire at another institution has been deferred until fall ‘22. Coming to your town soon.
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The difference between the Socratic and Aristotelian understandings of friendship seems to reflect a larger disagreement as to whether, or to what extent, one’s telos is located beyond oneself
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A love for country music is a sign of intellectual vitality because it shows that you can find meaning in idioms, see depths in surfaces
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Straussians (depending on what Socrates says): He said X and so he obviously means the opposite of X.
Also Straussians (depending on what Socrates says): He said X and so he obviously means exactly X.
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For those of you who have been able to attend, I drew up an extremely abbreviated and sloppily composed recap of the first half of my God and the Philosophers course. (Note: this is an intro level course)
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Signing off as “yours” in emails to members of a search committee to confuse them into thinking they’ve already hired me
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So many of the symptoms of depression are identical to the symptoms of being alive for a few decades
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I think Nietzsche’s most effective argumentative strategy is accusing his intellectual opponents (everyone) of smelling bad
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Last night I dreamt I went shopping for waterbeds with Richard Velkley while he taught me about the lost political writings of Heraclitus and their influence on JJ Rousseau
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We’re now just a few weeks away from Seinfeld announcing his faculty appointment at UATX
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I am the only Straussian who plays the pedal steel guitar. I am the only Straussian who truly “gets” America.
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It’s annoying that the only areas in which I have formal training (philosophy and politics) are the very areas in which absolutely everyone believes themselves to be experts (and, to be sure, in which formal training is most suspect).
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Promise me that when I die you will classify my tweets not as “early, middle, late” but will organize them in accordance with their dramatic sequence
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I will not donate money to the college, but I will slap this thing on the old laptop that I rarely use
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Holding views that don’t seem to go together is, maddeningly, the outward sign of both the deep thinker and the lazy thinker
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I’ve been teaching the Clouds for over a decade and I still can’t really figure out how to teach it
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The seemingly irresistible allure of “bro-ness” to otherwise thoughtful and interesting men—What is it?
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Can young aspiring Straussians please learn how to spell “Benardete”?
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PhD twitter is so annoying. Getting my PhD was the easiest thing I ever did. YOU pick what you want to write about and have several years to chip away at it. 8th grade physical science—now THAT was hard.
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