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...
art crafts curriculum
The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.
art humanity shock
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.
art desire kitsch
Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.
artist kitsch way
In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.
names kitsch emotion
There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.
beauty clouds fleeting
Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.
philosophy mad half
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
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.