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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Dec 2013

    1. The belief that Heidegger could be a complete rat & also a great philosopher rests on a particularly modern view of philosophy.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Dec 2013
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        2. For the ancients, a philosopher was not a job title but a way of life. The philosopher is one who lives the philosophic life.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Dec 2013
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        3. The story of Socrates' death was the proof of his authenticity as a philosopher & the sanction of the philosophic life

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      2. MSVH‏ @matthunte 16 Dec 2013
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        @HeerJeet First came to that understanding here: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/10/arts/10QNA.html …

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Dec 2013
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        @matthunte And my tweets were an attempt to push further conversation started by your earlier tweets on writers as heroes.

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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Dec 2013
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        @SWGoldman Well, I was channeling Guy Davenport, but I suppose it overlaps with old Leo.

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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Dec 2013
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        @SWGoldman I did study with Thomas Pangle & Clifford Orwin, so those tweets might just be me having a flashback.

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      1. Gerald Butts‏Verified account @gmbutts 16 Dec 2013
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        @HeerJeet Definitive break was probably Machiavelli (or at least Nietzsche), but the opposite archetype goes back a very long way too.

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      2. Gerald Butts‏Verified account @gmbutts 16 Dec 2013
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        @HeerJeet but then maybe that's when modernity begins, by definition.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Dec 2013
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        @gmbutts Yes, exactly.

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      2. Michael Stickings‏ @mjwstickings 16 Dec 2013
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        @SWGoldman @HeerJeet Nothing wrong with being a Straussian, just with following the politics of some of his RW followers.

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      3. Mike Di Gregorio‏ @mike_digs 16 Dec 2013
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        @mjwstickings @SWGoldman @HeerJeet On this topic, the exchange b/w Gourevitch and Shulsky is rather telling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVBt13oVoJE#t=23m32s …

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