Podcasts about how to be a conservative

Au printemps 2019, j’ai eu le plaisir de rencontrer le grand philosophe britannique Roger Scruton, alors que nous participions à un colloque organisé par l’Académie des sciences morales et politiques, à Paris. Nous avons soupé, fraternisé et commencé à nous écrire. Lors de ces échanges, je l’avais invité à cette émission et il avait accepté avec plaisir. Il s’agissait de trouver un moment. Hélas, la maladie s’en est mêlée et Scruton est mort en janvier, cette année, d’un cancer diagnostiqué quelques mois auparavant. Sa mémoire a été salué à la fois dans le monde anglo-saxon et en France, où il avait ses lecteurs, et où il en aura, je crois, de plus en plus. Je croyais et je crois toujours nécessaire de faire connaître au public québécois la pensée de ce grand philosophe associé à la renaissance du conservatisme britannique, qui savait jeter un œil si perspicace sur le malaise occidental. Et c’est pour cela que je reçois aujourd’hui Pierre Norris, qui lui consacre son mémoire de maîtrise. Pierre Norris est aussi chroniqueur à Radio VM, à l’émission Questions d’actualité. Pour de l’information concernant l’utilisation de vos données personnelles - https://omnystudio.com/policies/listener/fr

Yesterday, 12 January 2020, English philosopher Roger Scruton died. Christian Humanist Profiles invites our listeners to remember his thought with this interview on his 2015 book "How to Be a Conservative."

Yesterday, 12 January 2020, English philosopher Roger Scruton died. Christian Humanist Profiles invites our listeners to remember his thought with this interview on his 2015 book "How to Be a Conservative."

Today's episode of The Van Maren Show is a special episode in honor of Sir Roger Scruton, a writer, philosopher, and staunch defender of Western Civilization and its values. He passed away yesterday, January 12th at 75 years of age after a battle with cancer. Sir Roger leaves behind a legacy of fighting for beauty, art, culture, and truth. Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the UK, has called him the “greatest modern conservative thinker.” Sir Roger became an intellectual freedom fighter in 1979, smuggling banned books behind the Iron Curtain in Europe. Even after the wall fell, he continued to communism through his writing. Over his career, he wrote over 50 books, including, How To Be A Conservative; The Soul of the World; The Aesthetic Understanding; Beauty. Jonathon Van Maren interviewed Sir Roger a few years ago and the two discussed the current state of culture, the need for true beauty in our art, and what we can do to revive our society. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nathan Gilmour interviews Roger Scruton about his recent book "How to Be a Conservative."

Nathan Gilmour interviews Roger Scruton about his recent book "How to Be a Conservative."

What does it mean to be a conservative in 2015? Garry’s guest tonight is Professor Roger Scruton, one of England’s leading philosophers and the author of How To Be A Conservative, along with many other provocative and intelligent books which question the dominant left-liberalism of modern Western thought. The son of a working class Mancunian Labour Party supporter, Roger’s contrary views were shaped by the 1968 Paris uprising when he realised that he was on the other side: the side that wanted to preserve rather than destroy. Scruton went on to champion dissidents in Eastern Europe before the fall of Communism, and was banned from Czechoslovakia for his pains. One of the many subjects that concerns the professor more recently is the fate of England. He criticised English voters being excluded from the debate about Scottish independence last year, and has said that given the opportunity he would vote for English independence. His book England an Elegy was a stout defence of English values and virtues. In a free-flowing chat, Garry asks him about intolerance of dissent on university campuses, free speech, the Labour Party, the culture of spin, modern art and the Church of England. And he asks why Scruton has written that the belief in human progress is unreal. Literacy is widespread, we have beaten many diseases, our people are relatively prosperous. Isn’t that progress? Is Roger Scruton really just as pessimist? >>>>>> Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes

What does it mean to be a conservative in 2015? Garry’s guest tonight is Professor Roger Scruton, one of England’s leading philosophers and the author of How To Be A Conservative, along with many other provocative and intelligent books which question the dominant left-liberalism of modern Western thought. The son of a working class Mancunian Labour Party supporter, Roger’s contrary views were shaped by the 1968 Paris uprising when he realised that he was on the other side: the side that wanted to preserve rather than destroy. Scruton went on to champion dissidents in Eastern Europe before the fall of Communism, and was banned from Czechoslovakia for his pains. One of the many subjects that concerns the professor more recently is the fate of England. He criticised English voters being excluded from the debate about Scottish independence last year, and has said that given the opportunity he would vote for English independence. His book England an Elegy was a stout defence of English values and virtues. In a free-flowing chat, Garry asks him about intolerance of dissent on university campuses, free speech, the Labour Party, the culture of spin, modern art and the Church of England. And he asks why Scruton has written that the belief in human progress is unreal. Literacy is widespread, we have beaten many diseases, our people are relatively prosperous. Isn’t that progress? Is Roger Scruton really just as pessimist? >>>>>> Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes