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Sir Roger Scruton: Conservative thinker dies at 75
BBC ^ | 01-12-2020 | Staff

Posted on 01/12/2020 3:28:49 PM PST by NRx

Conservative philosopher and author Sir Roger Scruton has died aged 75.

The author of more than 50 books on aesthetics, morality and politics, he was also a government advisor. Supporters hailed him as "the greatest conservative of our age".

A statement on his website said he had been fighting cancer for six months and "died peacefully" on Sunday.

"His family are hugely proud of him and of all his achievements," it said.

Sir Roger was at the centre of controversy last year when he was dismissed from, then reinstated to, an unpaid role as a government housing advisor after criticism of his comments about China and Muslim immigrants.

After he was restored to the role when supporters said his remarks had been misrepresented, he said there was a "witch-hunt" against right-wing figures, aiming to characterise them as racist or fascist. 'Conserve things'

Former Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan said Sir Roger was the "greatest conservative of our age".

"The country has lost a towering intellect. I have lost a wonderful friend," he said.

Historian Timothy Garton Ash said he was "a man of extraordinary intellect, learning and humour, a great supporter of central European dissidents, and the kind of provocative - sometimes outrageous - conservative thinker that a truly liberal society should be glad to have challenging it".

Born in February 1944, Sir Roger attended grammar school before studying at Cambridge.

He told the Guardian that he became a Conservative when visiting Paris during the 1968 student protests, which he saw as an "unruly mob of self-indulgent middle-class hooligans" professing "ludicrous Marxist gobbledegook"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Philosophy; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; brexitparty; nigelfarage; rogerscruton; sirrogerscruton; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 01/12/2020 3:28:49 PM PST by NRx
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To: NRx

Memory eternal.


2 posted on 01/12/2020 3:29:10 PM PST by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: NRx

A bit like the UK’s version of William F. Buckley, I think considerably less influential though.


3 posted on 01/12/2020 3:30:52 PM PST by MSF BU
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To: NRx

RIP.


4 posted on 01/12/2020 3:37:37 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: NRx

How’d the chap vote on Brexit?


5 posted on 01/12/2020 3:40:11 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: NRx

Terrible loss.

RIP


6 posted on 01/12/2020 3:40:27 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Some people thirst after wealth & some people thirst after fame but everybody thirsts after popcorn.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

He loathed the EU. He believed that in all but the rarest cases, government was best handled locally.


7 posted on 01/12/2020 3:51:16 PM PST by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: NRx

Great mind.
R.I.P.


8 posted on 01/12/2020 3:55:30 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: NRx

Rest in peace.


9 posted on 01/12/2020 4:01:47 PM PST by kalee
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
At YouTube - Why Roger Scruton wants Brexit
10 posted on 01/12/2020 4:08:19 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975; NRx

Thank you . . .


11 posted on 01/12/2020 4:11:07 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: MSF BU

One of his disciples is now ascendant with the opposition party Forum for Democracy in The Netherlands.


12 posted on 01/12/2020 4:20:07 PM PST by cornelis
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To: NRx

Great loss to the worldwide intellectual conservative movement. RIP.


13 posted on 01/12/2020 4:25:50 PM PST by nwrep
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To: NRx

Conservatives aren’t liberals who’ve been mugged. They’re thinking people who’ve been overexposed to “Marxist gobbledygook.”


14 posted on 01/12/2020 4:26:50 PM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: All

How to be a conservative...

https://youtu.be/1eD9RDTl6tM


15 posted on 01/12/2020 4:28:24 PM PST by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: NRx
Here are some finer sentiments from the Spectator

My 2019: Despite everything, I have so much to be grateful for

I happened to be reading this article and then searched for news on Scruton to be stabbed with this news.

16 posted on 01/12/2020 4:30:33 PM PST by cornelis
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To: NRx

Wow! I did not know him or his work so I looked him up on wiki. Seemed like a most prolific man.

What one book would you recommend to a novice?


17 posted on 01/12/2020 4:33:31 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: leaning conservative

How to be a conservative


18 posted on 01/12/2020 4:43:26 PM PST by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: NRx

“We have moved on a bit from the Middle Ages; it is not the man who is assassinated now, but only his character – but the effect is the same. Free discussion is being everywhere shut down, so that we will never know who is right – the heretics, or those who try to silence them” —Roger Scruton


19 posted on 01/12/2020 4:44:46 PM PST by cornelis
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To: NRx

Thank you!


20 posted on 01/12/2020 5:14:13 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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