Sir Roger Scruton, “A Thing Called Civilization”

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@marcoaslan
@marcoaslan 4 жыл бұрын
I'm grateful that he gave so many interviews before passing away
@Abraham_Tsfaye
@Abraham_Tsfaye 4 жыл бұрын
Scruton allegedly abused young boys. Now that he dead. Those victims won't get any justice.
@marcoaslan
@marcoaslan 4 жыл бұрын
Abraham Tsfaye hmm. Sorry, but I’m highly skeptical of media, or anything coming from the left (until they get their act together).
@Abraham_Tsfaye
@Abraham_Tsfaye 4 жыл бұрын
@@marcoaslan Think of the young children he allegedly abused. Don't you think they deserve justice?
@marcoaslan
@marcoaslan 4 жыл бұрын
Abraham Tsfaye have you ever heard of psychological projection?
@nicholasfraser6332
@nicholasfraser6332 4 жыл бұрын
@@marcoaslan Do not feed the troll, Marco. It is on a rampage and feeds on attention.
@oculii1
@oculii1 4 жыл бұрын
'Come, let us reason together.' You are missed, Sir Roger.
@陳英知Fred
@陳英知Fred 11 ай бұрын
A matyr of our age. What's he done, many have seen. My sincere tribute to Sir Roger. Message from China.
@陳英知Fred
@陳英知Fred 11 ай бұрын
There two greatest achievements in Western civilizaion: evocation of smile and freedom of laughter. With this particular civilization, people are dwelled in an air where they're constantly encouraged to smile to his neighbors as a free subject, a kind of expression which can rarely be seen in a authoritarian regime; while the latter indicates a reasonable gesture: instead of ad hominem or any sort of violence, one responds to those which appears to be ridiculous or radical with their harmlessly facial expressions. If further can be explicited, then tolerance and sarcasm have been and still is the core values in this particular civilization-as Prof. Scruton pointed out previouly-which make this civilization special and universal in a world of disbute and conflicts.
@FocusProj
@FocusProj 4 жыл бұрын
This is something every father should convey to his children in the west
@nicholasfraser6332
@nicholasfraser6332 4 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, contemporary European fathers prefer to wear man buns, tongue piercings and sarongs, and, after having popped some questionable substances from South America or Afghanistan, they chant corrupted Sanskrit mantras while dancing to the sound of Kongolese drums...
@juanme555
@juanme555 3 жыл бұрын
@@nicholasfraser6332 The biggest conventional drug producers are on the north side buddy. At the south you're looking at different stuff, not what Euros commonly consume...
@keithhunt5328
@keithhunt5328 3 жыл бұрын
@@nicholasfraser6332 Wow you negated Mr. Scrutons message.
@patricioriv
@patricioriv Жыл бұрын
I could listen to Sir Roger Scruton all day . Thanks to the Internet for making this possible (and this channel).
@paulcollings4543
@paulcollings4543 4 жыл бұрын
We're extremely fortunate to have been born in the UK. The western world has been the best place to live, work and learn . For God's sake, be thankful that you live here and not keep apologising for things done centuries ago.
@seanettles657
@seanettles657 4 жыл бұрын
Lucky that your people are who they are and were who they were - civilizations do not exist - cannot - without the peoples who created them. "Your blood does not belong to you. Civilization is a pact between those living, those who have passed, and those yet to be born." - Edmund Burke
@陳英知Fred
@陳英知Fred 11 ай бұрын
A true gentleman from the west should take up arm to defend his civilization: a pack of ideas and achievements which shrines from the peak of human world. You have Shakespear, Milton and Hendal; but please be awared, just like Albion was once occupied by the Roman culture, the English culture would't make such a achievement if you folks stop to understand your past and communicate with the continent Europe. It's a whole part.
@subsamadhi
@subsamadhi 4 ай бұрын
😂😂😂 shup shit for brains
@JonRaborn-gp4ff
@JonRaborn-gp4ff 4 ай бұрын
The saint david's foundation travis county austin texas. Katherian Middleton Windsor .
@JonRaborn-gp4ff
@JonRaborn-gp4ff 4 ай бұрын
Paris Hilton ,Aline Morrsett and Gregg Abbott and Katy Perry
@littleitalyblogspot
@littleitalyblogspot Жыл бұрын
At one time or another we all aspired to express what he does so eloquently.
@fromthepeanutgallery1084
@fromthepeanutgallery1084 Ай бұрын
That's the subtle but major difference between him and us. He objectified his thoughts (Books/Lectures) Possibly the most challenging/difficult thing to do. However, it's never too late.
@juancampbell5399
@juancampbell5399 5 ай бұрын
He died, but he made sure we got the message. What a man!
@EducatingForLiberty
@EducatingForLiberty 5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed the video! Who are other conservative thinkers you would like to see on our channel?
@AleXoEx0
@AleXoEx0 4 жыл бұрын
He's right you know.
@陳英知Fred
@陳英知Fred 11 ай бұрын
Truth are always being banished or even murdered in the first place.
@subsamadhi
@subsamadhi 4 ай бұрын
No he isn't dipshit
@ormsk954
@ormsk954 2 жыл бұрын
One of the few radio broadcaters of recent years whom I admired. A rare truth teller.
@erpollock
@erpollock 4 жыл бұрын
Roger Scruton was quite a wonder, a wondrous personage. A brilliant summation - Western Civilization is really Civilization. I wish I had followed his thought when he was still with us.
@陳英知Fred
@陳英知Fred 11 ай бұрын
Indeed. I think The salt of Sir Roger is spread out beyond Anglophone.
@erpollock
@erpollock 4 жыл бұрын
I'm impressed that he studied the Hebrew Bible - the original, not the translation. An accomplishment for a Christian scholar.
@dylanblack3279
@dylanblack3279 4 жыл бұрын
Well Christians copied from it so its not that surprising.
@gergelybakos2159
@gergelybakos2159 5 ай бұрын
Almost a last testament. Thank you, Sir Roger. May you rest in peace and may the West live on God willing!
@EducatingForLiberty
@EducatingForLiberty 5 ай бұрын
Is there anyone you would like to see featured on our channel?
@mjr597
@mjr597 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, Sir Roger Scruton! You and your thoughts will never be forgotten.
@quantummath
@quantummath 3 жыл бұрын
May he rest in eternal peace. I learned so much from this great man. What a prolific author and an erudite scholar. Love from an Iranian academic living in Germany.
@陳英知Fred
@陳英知Fred 11 ай бұрын
Sir Roger is indeed keen and sharp.
@richardlawton1023
@richardlawton1023 4 ай бұрын
Thank God for people like you. Many blessings in Heaven.
@EducatingForLiberty
@EducatingForLiberty 4 ай бұрын
Roger Scruton was a great man! Did you ever read any of his books?
@tanveermajid6330
@tanveermajid6330 2 жыл бұрын
Contradictions are essence of scholars....however no body engages profoundly but this man.
@hansjuker8296
@hansjuker8296 3 жыл бұрын
I'm reading How To Be a Conservative. This guy was the quintessential British professor.
@dorinmicu7511
@dorinmicu7511 4 жыл бұрын
A really great Man. May God rest him in peace!
@ricardocantoral7672
@ricardocantoral7672 4 жыл бұрын
So... ...Many... *...BOOKS!* 😍😍😍
@winksquiffler2454
@winksquiffler2454 4 жыл бұрын
He seems unusually upset and moved to speak in this video. What a great soul and what an enormous loss he is to mankind.
@nicholasfraser6332
@nicholasfraser6332 4 жыл бұрын
Given the current state of Western civilisation, he would have been terribly upset, and rightly so.
@DonikaJorgo-l7e
@DonikaJorgo-l7e 5 ай бұрын
Well said..that's why world are created...communication..❤.sad people like Mr Roger are missing..
@fromthepeanutgallery1084
@fromthepeanutgallery1084 Ай бұрын
"I somehow trust a philosopher with a messy desk, and books stuffed sideways, backwards, and upside-down into bookshelves." - PJC
@reogist
@reogist Жыл бұрын
This particular Horatius lived his whole life defending the bridge "And still his name sounds stirring ⁠Unto the men of Rome, As the trumpet blast that cries to them ⁠To charge the Volscian home; And wives still pray to Juno ⁠For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well ⁠In the brave days of old." Lord Macaulay
@srinjansaha2480
@srinjansaha2480 3 жыл бұрын
I miss him
@offthegridliving3339
@offthegridliving3339 4 жыл бұрын
He was so great!
@KoreaFirst
@KoreaFirst 3 жыл бұрын
Rest In Peace.
@pooman440
@pooman440 2 жыл бұрын
I understand the use of the word inheritance here. He is giving a nod to the gift that other cultures have given us, but it ultimately implies ownership, which is not how others view culture. Culture is an amazing amalgam of many different contributors. It’s shouldn’t be isolated into its component pieces, but neither should it owned by a subsequent culture.
@roastbeef1010
@roastbeef1010 3 жыл бұрын
One of Lincolnshires finest❤️ rip
@bluefishactcl1464
@bluefishactcl1464 2 жыл бұрын
What a gift to have such a clear and honest defense of our values and legacy to our children . We inherited treasures bought with blood. Lessons and compromises that generations will pay dearly if these have to be re-learned . We owe to our children and to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, to defend this legacy with all our strength .
@armorbearer9702
@armorbearer9702 3 ай бұрын
(4:28) I get it. Western society largely accepts new technologies and is open to new ideas.
@juancampbell5399
@juancampbell5399 5 ай бұрын
It’s what makes us feel “at home”
@Jeremy-ho3vi
@Jeremy-ho3vi 3 ай бұрын
None of us are at 'Home' anymore because we're surrounded by 'Strangers'.
@garyk.nedrow8302
@garyk.nedrow8302 2 жыл бұрын
Scruton in other videos has consistently lamented the decline of civilization in his own time, particularly the decline in popular culture as reflected in contemporary music. And he is right. But the decline has been evident far longer than that. Imagine what those who heard Beethoven and Mozart in live concerts thought of the musical styles that followed, each one increasingly less complex and more egalitarian than its predecessors until electronics made music a mass media. The music and arts of the masses have never equaled those of the educated and cultured -- and the trend is not likely to reverse in our lifetime or for many years to come. If Mozart were alive today and The Magic Flute was new, no one would perform it.
@Μάικ-ν5φ
@Μάικ-ν5φ 4 ай бұрын
As a Greek, who is in eternal love with the classics, I state clearly that if the west does not go back to its roots and redefine its sources it shall be in great trouble. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the stoics. We need to read more and protest less. The Reason (Logos), anthropocentricity, democracy. All need to be revisited.
@EducatingForLiberty
@EducatingForLiberty 4 ай бұрын
The Western tradition is full of great works! What are some of your favorites?
@Μάικ-ν5φ
@Μάικ-ν5φ 4 ай бұрын
@EducatingForLiberty Socrates. Kant. Heraclitus. I take pride in the British thinkers of the 18th,19th centuries, despite of the fact that Hobbes, for me is, repulsive. The French that showed the way for the French revolution, again, despite any objections, are to be respected. But Socrates, Plato, Aristotle I think that they have no match. If you want me to speak about individual works it has to be the Iliad, it has to be Antigone, it has to be Aristotle's Politics. Castoriades makes a good summary in η Έλληνική Ιδιαιτερότητα (it has not been published in English or French). The battle of Marathon and the battle of Thermopylae are also two works, even though not artistic but definitely they were intellectual works, that are the bedrock of western civilisation. Where free citizens fought mercenaries and slaves.
@delanym
@delanym 4 жыл бұрын
I agree. But, this charge, led by Nietzsche, Spengler, et al, is not unwarranted. There is something awry. And while it's obvious where to find the missing ingredient, when we dare to look at it, all we see is the Wagnerian show. A civilization enchanted with appearances
@alexsandroalvesartecultura5116
@alexsandroalvesartecultura5116 3 жыл бұрын
Do you want to blame Wagner and Nietzsche for the downfall of Civilization? Why?
@b.alexanderjohnstone9774
@b.alexanderjohnstone9774 2 жыл бұрын
The idea that any person can immigrate to an English speaking country and become a citizen by subscribing to a few core values is unique and comes from the western tradition of the individual, not part of a racial or tribal group. Only the ignorant or dishonestcan say western civilisation is racist. It's the opposite.
@陳英知Fred
@陳英知Fred 11 ай бұрын
There're bad sides and unpleasant history in the western civilations, no doubt; but one should say what has been developped within these western nations, especially those ideas what people tend to take for granded today: freedom of speech, rule of law and free market, etc. But above all, hats off to Sir Roger as he mentioned one of the essentials of human nautre is a sense of "feeling at home", and it is the descendents of Europa who have fulfilled this sentiment most.
@hadassahs4015
@hadassahs4015 4 ай бұрын
If people was so smart. Why is this world so destroyed? And so many people are so confused? Throwing everything against the wall hoping something, anything will stick.
@JonRaborn-gp4ff
@JonRaborn-gp4ff 4 ай бұрын
The book of mormon another testament of Jesus-Christ
@Humanaut.
@Humanaut. 4 жыл бұрын
Great hair by the way.
@anjansarkar9803
@anjansarkar9803 4 жыл бұрын
Thoughts from an eloquent man, punctuated by a very creaky chair !!
@dannysullivan3951
@dannysullivan3951 6 ай бұрын
I would point out that the single greatest achievement of Western Civ is democracy, a concept that not all American conservatives seem to appreciate.
@hanskiela694
@hanskiela694 4 жыл бұрын
He is was a burning candle in a time full of foolishness. His companions are K. Popper; Amos Oz and so on.
@muralin239
@muralin239 3 жыл бұрын
I wish he was my neighbour.
@陳英知Fred
@陳英知Fred 11 ай бұрын
He is a beloved neighbour, friend and guide to us all.
@JonRaborn-gp4ff
@JonRaborn-gp4ff 4 ай бұрын
Meditative planetary jesus-christ tranquile paradise and gardening
@TheCrusaderRabbits
@TheCrusaderRabbits 10 ай бұрын
I wish he had never smoked.
@11kravitzn
@11kravitzn 7 ай бұрын
This guy perfectly represents Western civilization: An old white British guy about to fall into a grave vaguely complaining about social change and the youth and pining for the mythical "good old days".
@garetgrossman539
@garetgrossman539 3 жыл бұрын
Spoken as he's dying from a disease of Western civilization from which Western medicine is unable to save him. But this is not to say that the notion of civilization, Western or otherwise, has a single meaning throughout usage. I feel that Scruton has a hidden agenda here, one which is focused on a small number of specific oppositions in international relations and that it would be more useful to articulate these.
@justinfoard3322
@justinfoard3322 Жыл бұрын
What are you blathering on about?
@lucianopavarotti2843
@lucianopavarotti2843 3 жыл бұрын
He projects vulnerability. But he has little of real interest to say.
@justinfoard3322
@justinfoard3322 Жыл бұрын
He was dying as he made these remarks, you heartless fool.
@gazlives
@gazlives 4 жыл бұрын
lol back to school chap
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