"‘Why Beauty Matters’ is a thoughtful film presented by Philosopher Roger Scruton, wherein he laments on the degradation caused in our lives by art, architecture and music being made devoid of beauty in the 20th century forcing us into a spiritual desert.
Roger analyses what went wrong win the world of art and beauty using the thoughts of philosophers from Plato to Kant, and by talking to artists Michael Craig-Martin and Alexander Stoddart, reinforcing the importance of beauty in art and beauty in out lives to restore mankind to their traditional position."
We're all fairly familiar with the physical and political changes that the agricultural and industrial revolutions produced, but what is the internet revolution doing to us?
Havel's central thesis explaining the equivocation of power and truth, is an opposition between the "true aims of life" and "the lie" of "the system". The modern invention that stitches these two opposing forces together, is IDEOLOGY.
I am beginning a multi-part response to Jordan Peterson's statement of political doctrine. He calls it "conservative". But, really, it's just Lockean Liberalism.
Sir Roger Scruton is a writer and philosopher who has published more than forty books in philosophy, aesthetics, and politics. He is widely translated. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches in both England and America and is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington D.C. He is currently teaching an MA in Philosophy for the University of Buckingham.