Roger Scruton citáty
Roger Scruton
Datum narození: 27. únor 1944
Datum úmrtí: 12. leden 2020
Roger Vernon Scruton je znám především jako britský filosof, estetik, politolog, spisovatel a hudebník. Je zastáncem a typickým představitelem konzervatismu. Vystudoval filozofii na Jesus College v Cambridgi, kde získal doktorát. Od roku 1971 do roku 1992 vyučoval a byl profesorem estetiky na Birkbeck College of London. V současnosti působí jako hostující profesor na Bostonské universitě a Univerzitě v St. Andrews.
Roger Scruton se roku 1979 také podílel na činnosti tzv. „podzemní univerzity“ během komunistického režimu v tehdejším Československu. Spolu s mnoha dalšími kolegy ze zahraničí vedl bytové semináře v Praze, Brně a Bratislavě pro ty, jimž režim neumožnil studium na vysokých školách. Je také členem českého PEN klubu a Společnosti pro vědy a umění. Patří též mezi zakladatele Vzdělávací nadace Jana Husa.
Jako uznání jeho přínosu české vědě a vzdělanosti mu byl v roce 2004 udělen čestný doktorát Masarykovy univerzity v Brně. Prezident Václav Havel mu udělil Medaili za zásluhy.
Citáty Roger Scruton
„Ve městě jsou lidé neustále nablízku podivuhodné směsici toho, co milují, nenávidí a toho, co se pro ně ukáže jako osudové.“
— Roger Scruton
Source: Forum 2000 http://www.forum2000.cz/cz/projekty/konference-forum-2000/2010/shrnuti/svet--ve-kterem-zijeme/
„Byl sluhou starého režimu… vždy podněcoval nenávist vůči Spojeným státům a Západu.“
— Roger Scruton
o Jiřím Dienstbierovi jako zahraničněpolitickém redaktorovi
Source: [KDO BYL KDO v našich dějinách ve 20. století, http://libri.cz/databaze/kdo20/list.php?od=d&start=1&count=20, 2016-07-27, Libri]
„Kant's position is extremely subtle — so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.“
— Roger Scruton
Modern Philosophy (1995), "Some More -isms" (p. 25)
„The real reason people are conservatives is that they are attached to the things that they love, and want to preserve them from abuse and decay. They are attached to their family, their friends, their religion, and their immediate environment. They have made a lifelong distinction between the things that nourish and the things that threaten their security and peace of mind.“
— Roger Scruton
"Conservatism and the Conservatory," https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/427945/conservatism-and-conservatory, National Review (December 2015).
„A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't.“
— Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey
Modern Philosophy (1995), "The Nature of Philosophy" (p. 6)
„The idea that the citizen owes loyalty to a country, a territory, a jurisdiction and all those who reside within it — the root assumption of democratic politics, and one that depends upon the nation as its moral foundation - that idea has no place in the minds and hearts of many who now call themselves citizens of European states.“
— Roger Scruton
England and the Need for Nations (2006)
„In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.“
— Roger Scruton
"Why I became a conservative," http://newcriterion.com:81/archive/21/feb03/burke.htm The New Criterion (February 2003).
„The modern world gives proof at every point that it is far easier to destroy institutions than to create them. Nevertheless, few people seem to understand this truth.“
— Roger Scruton
"Rousseau & the origins of liberalism," https://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/rousseau-the-origins-of-liberalism-2988 The New Criterion (October 1998).
„Hayek’s theory of evolutionary rationality shows how traditions and customs (those surrounding sexual relations, for example) might be reasonable solutions to complex social problems, even when, and especially when, no clear rational grounds can be provided to the individual for obeying them. These customs have been selected by the ‘‘invisible hand’’ of social reproduction, and societies that reject them will soon enter the condition of ‘‘maladaptation,’’ which is the normal prelude to extinction.“
— Roger Scruton
"Hayek and conservatism", in Edward Feser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hayek (2006)
„In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.“
— Roger Scruton
Modern Philosophy (1995), "Some More -isms" (p. 32)
„All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.“
— Roger Scruton
Rivers of Blood http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Rivers_of_Blood BBC2 documentary (8 March 2008)
„Conservatism is a philosophy of inheritance and stewardship; it does not squander resources but strives to enhance them and pass them on.“
— Roger Scruton
"Stand up for the real meaning of freedom," http://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/01/the-right-way/ The Spectator (January 2014).
„Democracies owe their existence to national loyalties — the loyalties that are supposedly shared by government and opposition, by all political parties, and by the electorate as a whole. Wherever the experience of nationality is weak or non-existent, democracy has failed to take root. For without national loyalty, opposition is a threat to government, and political disagreements create no common ground.“
— Roger Scruton
England and the Need for Nations (2006)
„Never in the history of the world have there been so many migrants. And almost all of them are migrating from regions where nationality is weak or non-existent to the established nation states of the West. They are not migrating because they have discovered some previously dormant feeling of love or loyalty towards the nations in whose territory they seek a home. On the contrary, few of them identify their loyalties in national terms and almost none of them in terms of the nation where they settle. They are migrating in search of citizenship which is the principal gift of national jurisdictions, and the origin of the peace, law, stability and prosperity that still prevail in the West.“
— Roger Scruton
England and the Need for Nations (2006)
