{"id":6068,"date":"2016-11-04T11:56:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T11:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/04\/dale-jacquette-1953-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T11:56:27","slug":"dale-jacquette-1953-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/04\/dale-jacquette-1953-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Jacquette (1953 – 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jacquette,<\/a>Professor Dale Jacquette died suddenly and unexpectedly at his home in August of this year at the age of 63.<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember Dale from the summer of 1984.  We were fellow seminarians in Hector-Neri Casta\u00f1eda<\/a>'s National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Indiana University in Bloomington. Dale struck me at the time as a classic introvert who spoke little but thought much.  He made for a welcome contrast with some overconfident others who were of the opposite disposition.<\/span><\/p>\n

He earns high praise in Nicholas Rescher's obituary<\/a>.   Other details in this local notice<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For a philosopher to die at 63 is to die young.  May his passing remind us of philosophy's muse.  For "Death is the true inspiring genius, or muse of philosophy." (Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor Dale Jacquette died suddenly and unexpectedly at his home in August of this year at the age of 63. I remember Dale from the summer of 1984.  We were fellow seminarians in Hector-Neri Casta\u00f1eda's National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Indiana University in Bloomington. Dale struck me at the time as a … Continue reading “Dale Jacquette (1953 – 2016)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,145,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality","category-obituaries","category-schopenhauer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}