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Roger Scruton

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January 27, 1944

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http://www.roger-scruton.com/

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Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction

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Roger Vernon Scruton is a self-employed English philosopher and writer, known in the UK as a key figure in the "New Right" in the 1980s and 1990s. He currently lives in rural Wiltshire, but was a professor of philosophy at Boston University from 1992 to 1995, and subsequently a professor at Birkbeck College, London.

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My plans and thoughts, Summer 2010

Comment on Recent Events. After a six-year spell in the United States, I and my family have returned to England, where we will be resident as before in rural Wiltshire, outside Malmesbury. During the last year I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington and I have been fortunate in having been [...]

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Books by Roger Scruton

Average rating: 3.61 · 813 ratings · 131 reviews · 69 distinct works

	Kant: A Very Short Introduction 3.70 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Beauty 3.75 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Short History of Modern Philosophy (Routledge Classics Series) 3.49 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	My rating:
	AN Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy 3.36 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey 3.93 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Spinoza 3.23 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Culture Counts 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope 3.30 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	England: An Elegy 3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat 3.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:

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“The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.”
― Roger Scruton

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“Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.”
― Roger Scruton, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

tags: despotism , international-sanctions , iraq , iraq-sanctions , kim-jong-il , north-korea , saddam-hussein

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