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Repost-Roger Scruton on Kant: A Response To Hume?
“It is a common empiricist assumption that I can know my experience simply by observing it. But this is not so. I do not observe my experience, but only its object. Any knowledge of experience m… more →
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Why surfing matters...
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jamiependergrass wrote 3 weeks ago: Last week I wrote a piece entitled: “Does surfing equal beauty?” Little did I know at the time that … more →
Get to see Roger Scruton on the telly while you can...
David Davis wrote 3 weeks ago: David Davis http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p6tsd/Why_Beauty_Matters/ Old Roger throroughly … more →
Why The X Factor is evil
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robpowell87 wrote 3 weeks ago: It seemed appropriate that last night the BBC chose to air a documentary examining the role of beaut … more →
Repost-Roger Scruton on Kant: A Response To Hume?
chr1 wrote 1 month ago: “It is a common empiricist assumption that I can know my experience simply by observing it. Bu … more →
Homecoming
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sjloncar wrote 1 month ago: (Incidentally, not being a web-designer, I must keep searching for a design in which I feel at home … more →
Bruckner, squared
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Joel Pidel wrote 2 months ago: My rejoinder to Mr. Goldman’s response below: Aficionados of music who do not know much about … more →
Grace under pressure
mvlturner wrote 3 months ago: Grace under pressure I continue to be impressed, and occasionally entranced, by the wit, restraint, … more →
Oakeshott '09 Programme
manwithoutqualities wrote 3 months ago: MICHAEL OAKESHOTT ASSOCIATION BAYLOR UNIVERSITY WACO, TEXAS NOVEMBER 12-14, 2009 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER … more →
Roger Scruton on Nonsensical Neuroscience
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fleance7 wrote 3 months ago: Some fine observations here by philosopher Roger Scruton on the reductionism that often accompanies … more →
Fatalist Activism in America... and now the UK
fourcultures wrote 3 months ago: My favourite Fatalist joke goes like this: Two farmers in conversation. ‘What would you do if … more →
persons and transcendentals
Stephen wrote 5 months ago: While some might call Roger Scruton’s recent City Journal piece naive (and it is, I would argu … more →
Review of Scruton's "Culture Counts"
KevinCK wrote 6 months ago: An Extended Essay on the Value of Cultural Education (3 of 5 stars) Roger Scruton’s book, I th … more →
Message in a Bottle
Alec Mouhibian wrote 6 months ago: In an essay on the various qualities of wetting the whistle, philosopher Roger Scruton delineates th … more →
"At the same time, philosophers like Shaftesbury, Burke, Adam Smith, and Kant recognized that we do not look on the world only with the eyes of science."
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onparkstreet wrote 6 months ago: Another attitude exists—one not of scientific inquiry but of disinterested contemplation—that we dir … more →
Roger Scruton In The American Spectator Via A & L Daily: Farewell To Judgment
chr1 wrote 6 months ago: Full article here: So what’s lacking in the humanities? Roger Scruton has some keen insights: … more →
Verba Vinumque
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Ian Wolcott wrote 6 months ago: The intoxication of Mallarmé’s abolit bibelot d’inanité sonore lies there on the page, n … more →
From YouTube: Roger Scruton On Religious Freedom, Islam & Atheism
chr1 wrote 7 months ago: A few key arguments Scruton makes: 1. The drive to expunge religion from public life in America is, … more →
Beauty and Kitsch
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Deborah Barlow wrote 7 months ago: Peter Battistoni, Canwest News Service So what’s wrong with kitsch, exactly? It’s garish … more →
From The City Journal: Roger Scruton On "Forgiveness And Irony"
chr1 wrote 8 months ago: Full article here. “Wherever the Western vision of political order has gained a foothold, we f … more →
