From all the comments I have read so far and the lectures online, Sir Roger beckons us to strive for a noble ideal in this somewhat brutish world. Roger Scruton is a true human spirit shining through; using his brain and intellect as a glaive to understand our predicament in life, calmly, dispassionately, and honestly. Now that he has left us his legacy of European wisdom it is incumbent upon us to personally pursue these various paths of reflection. À dieu Sir Roger.
I was devastated momentarily several days ago when i heard Sir Roger had died last month. No news of it that i saw down here in Australia. So now i am saving his TH-camd presentations for revisits. Lovely eulogies below - well done. Reminds me of the death of the Elizabethan/Jacobean Great Tudor Prince and Shakespeare, Sir Francis Bacon - polymath and epitome of the Renaissance Man. His memory was immediately accoladed widely and ebulliently - with most hinting at his hidden great arts, his true royal birth and of course The Plays and his poetry. Disclosure is now the most important game in town. I do hope that the English Conservatives know what they have now 'lost' otherwise they will really sink into oblivion. Recovering the national spirit/identity is essential before all else. Borders and boundaries have a vital role in psychology and orientation at all levels in consciousness - otherwise what is the value of mediation, sharing and kindness.
As i kid i learned that if anyone offended you you offend them back. If not you keep getting offended and maybe even beaten up. It was all about earning respect and good lessons for later in life.
@manu de backer Then you should also learn that you are no longer a kid, and that men know when to respond to offense and when to brush it off. No all offense deserves attention, this is in itself an act of superiority.
the problem of jokes is canned laughter.. humour rightly mines absurdity, but this opens up the space of acceptability, and here malice is effectively incentivised as quasi humour.
Do we need philosophers looking at jokes??? A joke has an instinctive origin and society will decide on an evolutionary way.....a joke is funny if someone laughs....if not pc then the political correctors can decide what limb to amputate
It's interesting that while making a fine plea for freedom, he also supports an Orwellian view that one ethnic group is more equal than others, thus giving it as an example to where our limits to freedom and our jokes should end. Which is not funny.
"It's interesting that while making a fine plea for freedom, he also supports an Orwellian view that one ethnic group is more equal than others," Provide a quote that supports this assertion, please!
Fair enough, but regardless those campus 'excesses', no one's been killed or imprisoned due to PC... unlike the times cited at the beginning, when folks once spread hate under the guise of 'free speech'.
What ever will we do without this brilliant, rational, truthful man. Broken-hearted. Rest In Peace Sir Roger.
I don’t know, I’m forty and I’ve gotten along just fine with him for all forty.
Jason Wong definitely haven’t 😂
No, I think, he is anti-rational.
Follow his ideas and become critical thinkers, we can do more things but that's the basics I can come up with.
Sir Roger was a true giant amongst men. His intellect, compassion and wisdom will be sorely missed.
it is very nice to listen to reason calmly expressed.
I miss it to " Make calm reasonable conversations great again"
Simply listening to him talk sets my heart and mind at ease. A treasure!
Absolutely brilliant
Supremely eloquently articulated and
Unequivocally true
Such a beautiful mind. You are greatly missed sir Roger Vernon Scruton
Scruton is a true national treasure.
Ricardo Laakso - I’m glad his influence extends beyond the U.K. 😀
What wonderful rational thinking beautifully expressed.
So spot-on! And pretty much obvious to any non-dogmatic thinking person.
From all the comments I have read so far and the lectures online, Sir Roger beckons us to strive for a noble ideal in this somewhat brutish world. Roger Scruton is a true human spirit shining through; using his brain and intellect as a glaive to understand our predicament in life, calmly, dispassionately, and honestly. Now that he has left us his legacy of European wisdom it is incumbent upon us to personally pursue these various paths of reflection. À dieu Sir Roger.
Even though I don't always agree 100% with this man, I love him!
sad that this only has 43,000 views
I was devastated momentarily several days ago when i heard Sir Roger had died last month. No news of it that i saw down here in Australia. So now i am saving his TH-camd presentations for revisits. Lovely eulogies below - well done. Reminds me of the death of the Elizabethan/Jacobean Great Tudor Prince and Shakespeare, Sir Francis Bacon - polymath and epitome of the Renaissance Man. His memory was immediately accoladed widely and ebulliently - with most hinting at his hidden great arts, his true royal birth and of course The Plays and his poetry. Disclosure is now the most important game in town. I do hope that the English Conservatives know what they have now 'lost' otherwise they will really sink into oblivion. Recovering the national spirit/identity is essential before all else. Borders and boundaries have a vital role in psychology and orientation at all levels in consciousness - otherwise what is the value of mediation, sharing and kindness.
I enjoy a funny ethnic joke if the speaker is not purposefully malicious.
It's always about the intention and context. A joke or an insult never stands for itself.
More often than not the targeted themselves are laughing about.
C Hitchens replaced ‘atheist’ with ‘jewish’ in one of his debates 2:44... I knew I’d heard it before
I believe he actually said "Jewish atheist", and it was in one of his debates with Tony Blair iirc.
Very well explained. Calm and rational.
It happened slowly, scene by scene. And then one day I realized I was surrounded by featureless Gulag. At least we have his writings.
Spot on
My compass: never jest about suffering or destruction.
As i kid i learned that if anyone offended you you offend them back. If not you keep getting offended and maybe even beaten up. It was all about earning respect and good lessons for later in life.
manu de backer : So much for turning the other cheek. Fighting offensiveness with offensiveness is a losing proposition. It's how wars begin...
@manu de backer Then you should also learn that you are no longer a kid, and that men know when to respond to offense and when to brush it off. No all offense deserves attention, this is in itself an act of superiority.
Does this series of short, 10 minute lectures have a name? Where can I find more of them?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qng8/episodes/player
I guess my self depricating humour is now unacceptable to me.
No you deprickating joke it isn't
Who are those that might want to “undermine our belief in our country ...”? Perhaps those who do not want us to have a “free society”....
Scruton is talking about the "marketplace of ideas" which, alas, is utopian ideal like many liberal ideas.
Reminds me of Peter O'Tool's voice. Am I wrong?
Which books is this excerpted from?
The Irish joke was first told by Hitchens if I’m not mistaken.
the problem of jokes is canned laughter.. humour rightly mines absurdity, but this opens up the space of acceptability, and here malice is effectively incentivised as quasi humour.
Where's the sad music?
This sounds like he is reading from something, what book is this from?
Do we need philosophers looking at jokes??? A joke has an instinctive origin and society will decide on an evolutionary way.....a joke is funny if someone laughs....if not pc then the political correctors can decide what limb to amputate
Scroton bravely slays another straw man.
It's interesting that while making a fine plea for freedom, he also supports an Orwellian view that one ethnic group is more equal than others, thus giving it as an example to where our limits to freedom and our jokes should end. Which is not funny.
"It's interesting that while making a fine plea for freedom, he also supports an Orwellian view that one ethnic group is more equal than others," Provide a quote that supports this assertion, please!
The BBC suppressed a lot of Scruton's work for being a pariah, including the Why Beauty matters documentary. This one lives on for a reason.
You lost me at 'The Holocaust'...
He's a public intellectual, if he didn't tow the line he'd have been taken down long ago.
Sad enough that our youth enjoy South Park styled "humor", but not some real politically incorrect jokes!
Fair enough, but regardless those campus 'excesses', no one's been killed or imprisoned due to PC... unlike the times cited at the beginning, when folks once spread hate under the guise of 'free speech'.
In which we discover that Scruton is a lousy teller of jokes.
Only because he can't (or won't) imitate a Northern Irish accent. You are lacking in imagination.
If that was the main thing you got out of this, I pity you.
Fiction and tropes -about the "safe spaces" at universities, etc. They don't actually exist. Scruton is an intellectual grifter.
A tiny amount of research shows you are wrong. They do exist.
Poison
you dead yet from its toxicity?
So spot-on! And pretty much obvious to any non-dogmatic thinking person.