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Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, né le 27 février 1944 à Buslingthorpe et mort le 12 janvier 2020, est un philosophe britannique.

Il est l’auteur de plus de trente livres, parmi lesquels Art and Imagination , Sexual Desire , The Aesthetics of Music , A Political Philosophy : Arguments for Conservatism , The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought , Beauty et Our Church . Scruton a aussi écrit deux romans, un certain nombre d’ouvrages généraux sur la philosophie et la culture, et composé deux opéras.

En 1969, il entre au Peterhouse College de l’université de Cambridge, comme Research Fellow en esthétique. Entre 1971 et 1992, Scruton enseigne l’esthétique au Birkbeck College de Londres où il devient professeur en 1985. À partir de 1992, il occupe des postes de professeur invité à Boston University, à l’American Enterprise Institute de Washington D.C., à l’université de St Andrews, et à l’université d’Oxford où il est membre du Blackfriars Hall. En 1982, il cofonde la Salisbury Review, revue politique conservatrice qu’il dirige pendant dix-huit ans. Il fonde Claridge Press en 1987 et siège au comité de rédaction du British Journal of Aesthetics. En 2012, il est élu Membre Senior au Ethics and Public Policy Center de Washington D.C.

En dehors de sa carrière de philosophe et d’écrivain, Scruton a participé à la création d’universités clandestines et de réseaux éducatifs dans l’Europe centrale sous autorité soviétique pendant la guerre froide. Il fut récompensé pour ses efforts dans ce domaine. Wikipedia  

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“La déconstruction se déconstruit et disparaît par elle-même, ne laissant qu’un sourire désincarné et une légère odeur de soufre.”

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Deconstruction deconstructs itself, and disappears up its own behind, leaving only a disembodied smile and a faint smell of sulphur.
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Publications, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey, 1994

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“Why is it after a century of socialist disasters, and an intellectual legacy that has been time and again exploded, the left-wing position remains, as it were, the default position to which thinking people gravitate when called upon for a comprehensive philosophy? Why are “right-wingers” marginalised in the educational system, denounced in the media and regarded by our political class as untouchable, fit only to clean up after the orgies of luxurious nonsense indulged in by their moral superiors?”

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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left (2015)

“Europe owes its greatness to the fact that the primary loyalties of the European people have been detached from religion and re-attached to the land. Those who believe that the division of Europe into nations has been the primary cause of European wars should remember the devastating wars of religion that national loyalties finally brought to an end. And they should study our art and literature for its inner meaning. In almost every case, they will discover, it is an art and literature not of war but of peace, an invocation of home and the routines of home, of gentleness, everydayness and enduring settlement.”

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England and the Need for Nations (2006)

“Democracies owe their existence to national loyalties — the loyalties that are supposedly shared by government and opposition, by all political parties, and by the electorate as a whole. Wherever the experience of nationality is weak or non-existent, democracy has failed to take root. For without national loyalty, opposition is a threat to government, and political disagreements create no common ground.”

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England and the Need for Nations (2006)

“This "knowing what to do"… is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand… The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.”

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"Knowledge and Feeling" (p. 35)
Culture Counts (2007)

“The ethical life… is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society… Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.”

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"Idle Hands" (p. 127)
Modern Culture (2000)

“Conservatives believe that our identities and values are formed through our relations with other people, and not through our relation with the state. The state is not an end but a means. Civil society is the end, and the state is the means to protect it. The social world emerges through free association, rooted in friendship and community life. And the customs and institutions that we cherish have grown from below, by the ‘invisible hand’ of co-operation. They have rarely been imposed from above by the work of politics, the role of which, for a conservative, is to reconcile our many aims, and not to dictate or control them.”

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"Stand up for the real meaning of freedom," http://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/01/the-right-way/ The Spectator (January 2014).

“The modern world gives proof at every point that it is far easier to destroy institutions than to create them. Nevertheless, few people seem to understand this truth.”

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"Rousseau & the origins of liberalism," https://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/rousseau-the-origins-of-liberalism-2988 The New Criterion (October 1998).

“In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires—sex in particular, and taste in general—the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out.”

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"Rays of Hope" (p. 106)
Culture Counts (2007)

“In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.”

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"Why I became a conservative," http://newcriterion.com:81/archive/21/feb03/burke.htm The New Criterion (February 2003).

“Hayek fails to account either for the passion among intellectuals for equality, or for the resulting success of socialists and their egalitarian successors in driving the liberal idea from the stage of politics. This passion for equality is not a new thing, and indeed pre-dates socialism by many centuries, finding its most influential expression in the writings of Rousseau. There is no consensus as to how equality might be achieved, what it would consist in if achieved, or why it is so desirable in the first place. But no argument against the cogency or viability of the idea has the faintest chance of being listened to or discussed by those who have fallen under its spell.”

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"Hayek and conservatism", in Edward Feser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hayek (2006)

“Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.”

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"Avant-garde and Kitsch" (p. 91)
Modern Culture (2000)

“An international socialism is the stated ideal of most socialists; an international liberalism is the unstated tendency of the liberal. To neither system is it thinkable that men live, not by universal aspirations but by local attachments; not by a “solidarity” that stretches across the globe from end to end, but by obligations that are understood in terms which separate men from most of their fellows—in terms such as national history, religion, language, and the customs that provide the basis of legitimacy.”

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"How to be a Non-Liberal, Anti-Socialist Conservative," Intercollegiate Review: A Journal of Scholarship and Opinion (Spring 1993).

“When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.”

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"Should he have spoken?", The New Criterion (September 2006), p. 22; also in The Roger Scruton Reader (2009) edited by Mark Dooley

“In discussing tradition, we are not discussing arbitrary rules and conventions. We are discussing answers that have been discovered to enduring questions.”

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Source: How to Be a Conservative (2014), p. 21

“There is no doubt in my mind that, from the third-person point of view, monarchy is the most reasonable form of government. By embodying the state in a fragile human person, it captures the arbitrariness and the givenness of political allegiance, and so transforms allegiance into affection.”

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The Meaning of Conservatism (2001), p. 193

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