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Roger Scruton

Born

in Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, The United Kingdom

January 27, 1944

Died

January 12, 2020

Website

http://www.roger-scruton.com/

Genre

Philosophy, Politics, Fiction

Influences

Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Edmund Burke ...more

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Sir Roger Scruton was a writer and philosopher who has published more than forty books in philosophy, aesthetics and politics. He was a fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He taught in both England and America and was a Visiting Professor at Department of Philosophy and Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, he was also a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington D.C.

In 2015 he published two books, The Disappeared and later in the autumn, Fools Frauds and Firebrands. Fools Frauds and Firebrands is an update of Thinkers of the New Left published, to widespread outrage, in 1986. It includes new chapters covering Lacan, Deleuze and Badiou and some timely thoughts about the historia ...more

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	Beauty by Roger Scruton 3.96 avg rating — 2,542 ratings — published 2009 — 32 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to be a Conservative by Roger Scruton 4.10 avg rating — 1,882 ratings — published 2014 — 29 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton 3.78 avg rating — 1,896 ratings — published 1983 — 44 editions	Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton 4.05 avg rating — 1,331 ratings — published 1998 — 37 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition by Roger Scruton 3.84 avg rating — 1,120 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton 3.66 avg rating — 789 ratings — published 1986 — 36 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton 4.01 avg rating — 689 ratings — published 2014 — 15 editions	Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Short History of Modern Philosophy by Roger Scruton 3.81 avg rating — 713 ratings — published 1981 — 55 editions	Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope by Roger Scruton 3.84 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions	Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Human Nature by Roger Scruton 3.74 avg rating — 555 ratings — published 2017 — 23 editions	Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.”
― Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey

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“It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.”
― Roger Scruton

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“The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.”
― Roger Scruton

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