Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Vernon Scruton was an English philosopher, writer, and social critic who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of conservative views. The founding-editor of The Salisbury Review, a conservative political journal, Scruton wrote over 50 books on architecture, art, philosophy, politics, religion, among other topics. Scruton was also Chairman of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission for the United Kingdom's government, from 2019 to 2020.
Background
- Born in
- Buslingthorpe
- Educated at
- University of CambridgeCity, University of LondonCity Law SchoolThe Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
- Awards
- 🏆 Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of Hungary🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 Czech Medal of Merit🏆 Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland🏆 Silver Medal of the President of the Senate
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 G. E. M. Anscombe
Trending & Selected Quotes
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"National loyalty is founded in the love of place, of the customs and traditions that have been inscribed in the landscape and of the desire to protect these good things through a common law and a comm…"
"Without the background of a remembered faith modernism loses its conviction: it becomes routinised. For a long time now it has been assumed that there can be no authentic creation in the sphere of hig…"
"All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to …"
"Liberty is not the same thing as equality, and that those who call themselves liberals are far more interested in equalizing than in liberating their fellows."
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Timeline
1944
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Birth2020
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