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Letters
Letters
Friendly Fire • More Than A Review, A Philosophy • Is Physicalism Wrong, Though? • Barking Up A Different Tree • Heidegger’s Hate Mail • Moral Guardians
Friendly Fire
Dear Editor: My reading Madigan & Gorlova’s article on Aristotelian friendship in PN 126 coincided with the visit of an American friend whom my wife has known for over sixty years. During her stay my wife and I purposefully avoided discussion of US politics, as we knew that our friend had voted for Trump. But then on the last day of her visit, as we were chatting about the six degrees of separation idea, our friend suddenly announced that she had been at school with Hillary Rodham and therefore knew ‘for a fact’ that ‘crooked Hillary’ had lied about her age. As we now live in a post-truth political environment, it was not clear whether this revelation was a ‘fact’ or an ‘alternative fact’. My heart sank further when our friend mentioned that she relied on Fox News to give a fair and balanced view of the Trump presidency.
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