Patrick Lee Miller

Patrick Lee Miller is a philosopher teaching at Duquesne University. He is the author of Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy.

8 Posts

Francis Fukuyama’s Master Concept

Patrick Lee Miller

17 Jan 2019 · 12 min read

Between Discipline and Chaos

Patrick Lee Miller

29 Dec 2018 · 10 min read

Liberalism Can Succeed

The first concerns the relationship of theory to practice; the second, the relationship of liberalism to its preliberal inheritance.

Patrick Lee Miller

20 Feb 2018 · 24 min read

Has Liberalism Failed?

Every regime hits peaks and troughs. What is the evidence that this present crisis is terminal failure, rather than another periodic setback?

Patrick Lee Miller

12 Feb 2018 · 24 min read

Premodernism of the Future

What is most needed in our present crisis is a philosophy that can move through the impasse between modernism and postmodernism.

Patrick Lee Miller

7 Dec 2017 · 26 min read

The Impasse Between Modernism and

The battlefield is indeed the university. How, then, does he characterize these two opponents?

Patrick Lee Miller

7 Dec 2017 · 22 min read

The Implosion of Western Liberalism

By the end of the twentieth century, liberal democracy seemed not only triumphant but, to some, inevitable.

Patrick Lee Miller

5 Nov 2017 · 21 min read

The Google Memo: The Economist On Nothing

This may come as a surprise to those who developed their opinion about it, not by reading the memo itself but by absorbing accounts of it in the popular press.

Patrick Lee Miller

31 Aug 2017 · 26 min read