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November 6, 2023

To Roger Scruton, Art Was a Sign of a Society’s Moral Integrity

Politics, aesthetics, and tradition.

The late English philosopher Roger Scruton devoted much of his career to probing the links between tradition and the moral life. Another abiding concern of his work was beauty, a philosophical subject about which he published major studies, covering music, architecture, and the visual arts. Reviewing a new book by Ferenc Hörcher on the role of aesthetics in Scruton’s thought, Ronen Shoval writes:

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