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17032672 No.17032672 [Reply] [Original]

What do we do without him bros

>> No.17032677

>>17032672
Maybe think for yourself

>> No.17032684
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17032684

>>17032672
Have a smoke

>> No.17032699

>>17032672
>born into dirt-poor working-class family
>father walked all day to the city to get some teeth pulled, couldn't afford anaesthesia
>staging avant-garde plays by 18
>witnessed the May 68 riots
>spent decades smuggling philosophy, bibles, and literature into the eastern bloc
>impressively wide understanding of philosophy, history, music, architecture, art, literature, and politics
>wrote dozens of books, some pitched at an academic level, others for a lay reader
>tried to start a magazine of conservative philosophy and thought, had to write the bulk of the articles under pseudonyms because he couldn't get any backers
>blacklisted and harangued out of academia
>composed sonatas
>helped redesign cities in bombed-out Syria
>incredible life that is usually boiled down to the tobacco column and numerous snippets and columns, most of which are taken out of context

The guy's life was pretty amazing, especially for a philosopher. Anyone read his short story book, Souls in the Twilight? Is it any good?

>> No.17032704

>>17032699
Oh and forgot to mention, ended up on a first-name basis with many leading politicians in the post-Soviet eastern bloc - because they attempted his clandestine lectures.

>> No.17032714

>>17032672
the toboacconist

>> No.17032730

What did we do with him?

>> No.17032734

>>17032699
>>17032704
Agree, was just memeing. He was also fluent in a large number of European languages and also Arabic, as far as I know.

>> No.17033109

Is charlatans, fools and firebrands worth reading?

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>>17032699
Checked. And this is his legacy

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>>17032699

>> No.17033141

>>17032672
He should have studied math or physics after winning his scholarship rather than getting into philosophy

>> No.17033156

>>17033118
>found the butthurt Hungarian opposition
He forgot to mention that the Hungarian government finances a foundation to preserve his legacy and uses his works to spread non-brainwashed ideology. Actually on Hungarian scale it is pretty big.

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Greatest video on youtube he's in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoybTk6TEX4

>> No.17033222

>>17033156
nigga I don't care Hungary being "illiberal" I just posted it because the cafe is the antonym style of Scruton and it's funny. I'm glad there are nations in the EU acting like nation states.

>> No.17033290

>>17032699

He was also skilled at debating both politics and religion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JojH0xVmHC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKkVPnqREbQ

>> No.17033303

>>17032672
>what if western civilisation was just liberalism from 100 years ago
>dude what if you misunderstood the Spinozist concept of freedom
Pass.
He was still based (for an academic) and his conception and discussion of beauty is great though.
>>17032677
FPBP

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17033379

just about to start this. what am i in for?

>> No.17033381

roger scrotum

>> No.17033949

>>17033381
This

>> No.17034069

>>17033290
Gonna watch these debates later. Does Scruton ever talk to or respond to Hitchens in the debate?

>> No.17034103

>>17033379
I was filtered by it

>> No.17034116

>>17033303
>FPBP
Anon, obviously the Op isn't being serious that we're all mentally hopeless to lead the way in public culture-thought. Though not to say he was not important in what he did show to people.

>> No.17034119

>>17032672
We watch beauty die

>> No.17034123

>>17033379
What's the building?

>>17034103
How so?

>> No.17034131

>>17034069
This.

>> No.17034143

>>17032699
It really doesn't matter how much you wrote if all you say is
>gommunism bad
Of course, it guarantees you an uncritical audience of appreciative imperialists and robber barons.

>> No.17034198

>>17034069

It's been a while since I last watched it, I remember Roger responds to Hitchens here (where Hitchens himself is responding to the idea that you can't have as much beauty, sense of wonder, etc without religion):

https://youtu.be/bKkVPnqREbQ?t=4991

>> No.17034206

>>17034143

You'd have a point if 3/4 of his books weren't about politics.

>> No.17034213

>>17034143
If that's all you got from him, you were filtered hard

>> No.17034217

>>17034206
*You'd have a point but 3/4 of his books aren't about politics

>> No.17034271

>>17034123
It's the Radcliffe Camera at Oxford University.
It's very dry to read. I had read some of his more recent books and found them very accessible but The Aesthetics of Architecture was written forty years ago and is for a more academic audience. My knowledge of architecture and aesthetic philosophy is okay but there's a lot of stuff in there that I had to look up because I wasn't familiar with it. If you've got a handle on aesthetic philosophy, Kant especially, and you are familiar with Architectural theory (as I recall there's a lot about renaissance architecture) then you'll be fine.

>> No.17034286

>>17034271
What exactly does architectural theory involve? Italian words for the specifics of architectural motifs?

>> No.17034305

Any other good books on (traditional) architecture?

>> No.17034312

>>17034305
That's what your mum asked last night.

>> No.17034330

His ousting from the government advisory role is still a fucking farce.

Fuck Britsharia.

>> No.17035243

I've only read his works on the philosophy of film and I must admit I'm not a fan. Though, this thread has me wanting to dip in.

>> No.17035532

>>17034143
>gommunism bad
yes

>> No.17036318

>>17032672
Preserve.

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>>17034330
This, he received an apology from only one, another gave a half assed one and the third didn't bother.

And can you believe that "journalist" kid actually celebrated getting him ousted? Pic related.

>> No.17036553

>>17032672
Listen to music while riding elevators. It will make me feel like rebel and scoundrel.