A political philosophy
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A political philosophy
Continuum, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780826480361
内容説明
Over the past twenty years, Roger Scruton has been developing a conservative view of human beings, human society and culture. In this book, he writes a defence of social order, beginning from philosophical first principles which will be a systematic answer to liberal egalitarianism, but also a defence of the Western social, religious, cultural and political inheritance. It also demonstrates that this inheritance is a reflection of the deepest truths about human nature. The tone of the book is positive and the arguments are recommendations with the aim of convincing the reader that rumours of the death of Western civilisation are greatly exaggerated. What is at stake in the culture wars is analysed. How Western civilisation is heir to a deep conception of the human being and still has the ability to put that conception into practice. The polemic in this book is strong and effective. Much of our present self doubt, argues Scruton, if brought about by the Darwinian theory of evolution. No defence of the conservative vision will be well founded if it does not confront the questions raised by Darwin and if it does not show exactly what distinguishes us from other animals.
Darwin encourages us to see human emotion as a reproductive strategy. This is a perspective which Scruton attacks vehemently especially in its modern proponents- Desmond Morris and Richard Dawkins. This the author believes undermines the belief in freedom and the moral imperatives that stem from it.
目次
- 1. Humans and Animals
- 2. Freedom and Accountability
- 3. Private and Public
- 4. The Corporate Person
- 5. Two Adventures
- 6. Education and Culture
- 7. The West and its Future.
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: pb ISBN 9780826496157
内容説明
What principles should govern our relations to the nation-state, to the environment, to other species, to other cultures and to other ways of life? How should we approach marriage, religion, evil and mortality? How should we respond to relativism and nihilism in their current forms? What explains the rise of totalitarianism, and the fatal attraction that it exerts over the educated mind? What is Enlightenment, and what residue has it left in our view of ourselves? Those are some of the questions addressed by Roger Scruton in this scintillating book of philosophical reflections. Well known as a commentator, Roger Scruton makes no concessions to intellectual fashion, and is forthright in expressing what he believes and why he believes it. The result is challenging, but informed throughout by a humane and compassionate outlook. Scruton's targets are shown to deserve his sceptical assault on them, and the vision that he defends, of a society ordered by custom, tradition and national loyalty, is one that will appeal far more widely than to orthodox conservatives.
目次
- Introduction
- Conserving Nations
- Conserving Nature
- Eating our Friends
- Dying Quietly. Meaningful Marriage
- Extinguishing the Light
- Religion and Enlightenment
- The Totalitarian Temptation
- Newspeak and Eurospeak
- The Nature of Evil
- Eliot and Conservatism
- Acknowledgements
- Name Index
- Subject Index.
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