Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, FBA, FRSLis an English philosopher who specialises in aesthetics. He has written over thirty books, including Art and Imagination, The Meaning of Conservatism, Sexual Desire, The Philosopher on Dover Beach, The Aesthetics of Music, Beauty, How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism, Our Church, and How to Be a Conservative. Scruton has also written several novels and a number of general textbooks on philosophy and culture, and he has composed...
philosophy might problem
The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the realm of actuality, but to the realms of possibility and necessity: to what might be and what must be, rather than to what is.
bullying institutions protect
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
subtle agree position
Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
beauty hours pageant
The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.
firsts moral argument
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
philosophy believe doubt
A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
lying secret modernism
Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.
consolation imaginary imaginary-things
The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
religious civilization political
A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.
want useless architecture
If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.
moving wine games
Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in technique, climate, grape, soil and culture ensure that wine is, to the ordinary drinker, the most unpredictable of drinks, and to the connoisseur the most intricately informative, responding to its origins like a game of chess to its opening move.
useless
Nothing is more useful than the useless.
art children delight
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
religious art redemption
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or music or poetry, but the kind of art that creates a whole world in itself and in that world we see ourselves reflected and see our religious life perfected.