Roger ScrutonThinkers

Aesthetics is the appreciation of something for its own sake.

Beauty is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings which, if ignored, will land us in a spiritual desert.

A Demagogue is a politician who achieves or holds power 'by stirring up the feelings of his audience and leading them blindly to action.

Identity is that which unites us with our neighbors, 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.

Postmodernism is the flawed politically correct reasoning whereby, in the absence of grounds for truth, objectivity, and meaning, cultural relativism is taken as objectively true -and all conflicts between views are nothing but contests of power.

The Sacred is those beliefs which enhanced the reproduction of our ancestors, or the evolutionary remnants of those beliefs.