/lit/ - Literature

>>20967769
>>Out-of-date and out-of-touch, rich, trad elitist is also Wagnerian.

>>20540568
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarJ-MbdgHg

>>18404499

Has anyone rebutted his rebuke of Islam?

>Traditional Muslim Arab societies are stiff with obligations: obligations to family, to friends, to tribe; obligations that crisscross and overlap through competing networks of kinship and hospitality. And over these obligations is laid the supreme mantle of a divine law, which must be obeyed not because of human choice but in spite of it.
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>It is by contrast with such societies that the core idea of citizenship should be understood. The good citizen recognizes obligations towards people who are not, and cannot be, known to him. The Greek polis contained few living strangers, and those who roamed freely about its streets were expressly denied the gift of citizenship. They were the metics—the metoikoi—whose home or oikos was officially elsewhere. But the polis was generous towards dead and unborn citizens, honoring the first in every public ceremony, and providing for the second in all its deliberative acts. And it was in the course of honoring the dead that Pericles delivered the great oration that first defined the virtues of the free citizen. We Athenians pride ourselves, Thucydides has Pericles say, in being “free and tolerant in our private lives, in public matters obedient to the law.”

>A modern democracy is perforce a society of strangers. And the successful democracy is the one where strangers are expressly included in the web of obligation. Citizenship involves the disposition to recognize and act upon obligations to those whom we do not know. The comparative absence of this disposition from the Islamic countries in the Middle East has had catastrophic consequences, as attitudes shaped by religion and family ties try to adapt themselves to a world made by strangers.

>Do I have an identity problem? I don't think so. I am a French intellectual, a born Englishman, a German romantic, a loyal Virginian and a Czech patriot; and, like Sylvia Plath, 'I may be a bit of a Jew' (see 'How I discovered my name' in Gentle Regrets.) I have found a way to be comfortable with all those aspects of myself, by striving to express them.

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>>17038818
He has composed and recorded

>>17032699

Anyone here read Roger Scruton's, "The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat"?

>Organizations like Hamas and the Islamic Jihad take their inspiration from the Muslim Brotherhood and the Hizbullah. They do not work through diplomacy or negotiation, but through violence, and suicide bombings are now their principal device. In these circumstances it is almost impossible for Israel to form a coherent policy towards the Palestinians.

>If we see the Palestinian conflict in this way, we shall be led to reject the currently fashionable view that the terrorist threat to America comes from America’s support for Israel. On the contrary. It is Israel’s relation to America that makes Israel the target of militant Islam.

In his book "The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat", the famous trad philosopher Sir Roger Scruton asserts Islam is fundamentally incompatible with western values and their hatred of freedom is what has triggered their jihad against America. For example he says it is completely opposed to freedom of speech which we regard as a fundamental human right, he gives pornography as an example. He also says Sharia does not recognize corporate personhood, something very important in the western legal tradition because it allowed for the separation of church and state

In How to be a Conservative, he talks about how conservatism recognizes the nation rather than religion is the ultimate identity and the state rather than church the ultimate arbitrator, whereas Islam is antagonistic to western values because it rejects these important legacies of the Enlightenment.

The question is, is he right?

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>>16602842

>>16579897
Scruton would destroy him

>>16525831
At least he was a real philosopher

In his book "The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat", the famous trad philosopher Sir Roger Scruton asserts Islam is fundamentally incompatible with western values. For example he says it is completely opposed to freedom of speech which we regard as a fundamental human right, he gives pornography as an example. He also says Sharia does not recognize corporate personhood, something very important in the western legal tradition because it allowed for the separation of church and state

In How to be a Conservative, he talks about how conservatism recognizes the nation rather than religion is the ultimate identity and the state rather than church the ultimate arbitrator, whereas Islam is antagonistic to western values because it rejects these important legacies of the Enlightenment.

The question is, is he right?