Patrick Lee Miller is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy (Continuum, 2011), and co-editor of Introductory Readings in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (Hackett, 2015). His recent articles consider gender, sexuality, pedagogy, virtual-reality, child psychology, and constitutional government in his effort to use Platonism to solve current problems.
by Patrick Lee Miller Trump is contemptuous of truth. It is not so much that he lies, although obviously he does a lot of that. His contempt of truth goes deeper than that of the liar, who knows what’s true and deliberately says the opposite. Trump simply doesn’t care whether what he says is true…