Morality Reading

 I think Derek King's Reading as Moral Formation: C.S. Lewis and Iris Murdoch on Attentional Humility from The Hedgehog Review makes a great point here:

It is, I assume, uncontroversial to suggest that books play an important role in moral formation. How else to explain the intense conflicts over school curricula or books that should (or should not) be included in a school library? But if Lewis and Murdoch are right—and I think they are—then it’s not in the way we might expect. We do not read, first, to extract moral wisdom from texts that we then apply to become moral. Rather, reading itself—whatever we read—is moral instruction. No doubt, what we read can be morally formative, too. A week spent in Dostoevsky will shape us differently than a week spent in E.L. James. We should, then, think carefully about what we read. But I suspect, for most of us, the moral formation stops there. For Lewis and Murdoch, it is only the beginning. 

Am I overlooking something by saying the following proves the above argument - Donald J. Trump does not read?

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