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Roger Scruton
English philosopher (1944–2020)
Sir Roger Scruton FBA FRSL | |
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Scruton in 2016 | |
| Born | Roger Vernon Scruton (1944-02-27)27 February 1944 Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 12 January 2020(2020-01-12) (aged 75) South Kensington, London, England |
| Alma mater | Jesus College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)[1] |
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| Television | Why Beauty Matters (BBC Two, 2009) |
| Spouses | Danielle Laffitte (m. 1973; div. 1979)Sophie Jeffreys (m. 1996) |
| Children | 2 |
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Philosophy career | |
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| Region | Western philosophy |
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| Website | roger-scruton.com |
Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, FBA, FRSL (; 27 February 1944 – 12 January 2020) was an English philosopher, writer, and social critic who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of conservative views.[5][6][7]
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welcome
This website was created by Roger Scruton and we continue to update it in order to display the lasting impact of his incredible career and life.
Here you can find; information and application forms for the ongoing SCRUTOPIA SUMMER SCHOOL, a vast selection of Roger’s books in the BOOKSHOP, more ABOUT Roger's career and tributes, recent news plus ARTICLES and ARCHIVE material. Finally AFFILIATIONS with the wide network Roger created that continues to grow including The Roger Scruton legacy Foundation.
This summer we will be repeating our ‘Scrutopia Summer School’ through the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester Park, delivering ten days of intoxicating eccentricity in the Gloucestershire countryside.
A special mention must go to Håkon Wium Lie for the fantastic drone footage of Sunday Hill Farm which can be seen below. Pity about the collision with the helicopter full of hovering journalists. But they were all from the Guardian, so no real harm done.
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My Intellectual Identity
I chose to read philosophy (called, quaintly, 'moral sciences' at Cambridge in those days) because that seemed to be a first step on my chosen career. My role model was Sartre, whose prose, passing easily (as it seemed to me then) from the abstract to the concrete and from the general to the particular, wound philosophy and poetry together in a seamless web, which was also a web of seeming.
Sartre aimed to show the world as it seems, with its felt intricacies exposed. From him I learned that the intellectual life is not an affair of the academy only, and indeed that its most important instances belong outside the academy, in the various activities around art, literature and music, through which the world strives to become conscious of itself. I stopped short of thinking, as Sartre did, that the end point of the intellectual life is political commitment. Strangely, however, my a-political stance became, in due course, a kind of politics, and within a few years of graduating from Cambridge I had become passionately political, though in the opposite
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