Over the past twenty years, Roger Scruton has been developing a conservative view of human beings, society and culture. The tone of this 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. Much of our present self doubt, argues Scruton, is brought about by the Darwinian theory of evolution. Darwin encourages us to see human emotion as a reproductive strategy. This is a perspective which Scurton 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.
A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism
Roger Scruton
Continuum
2007
214 páginas
7h 8m
ISBN-13: 9780826496157
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Roger Vernon Scruton
Filósofo e escritor inglês, especialista em Estética. Tem sido apontado como o intelectual britânico conservador mais bem-sucedido desde Edmund Burke e foi nomeado Cavaleiro da Ordem do Império Britânico pela Rainha Elizabeth II em junho de 2016. Escreveu mais de trinta livros, incluindo Art and Imagination (1974), The Meaning of Conservatism[4](1980), Sexual Desire (1986), The Aesthetics of Music (1997), A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism (2006), Beauty (2009), Our Church (2012), How to be a Conservative (2014), The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought e How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism (2012). Também escreveu livros didáticos sobre filosofia e cultura, dois romances, e compôs duas óperas.
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