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Conservatism

Ideas in Profile

Roger Scruton Mark Meadows Roger Scruton

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23 August 2017
Roger Scruton looks

at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines

conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the role of the

state on the one hand; and freedom (including freedom of expression and

association), morality, equality, property and rights on the other. He traces

the origins and development of the conservative ideology in the philosophies

and thoughts of, among others, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Edmund

Burke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Michael Oakeshott,

Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman and Robert Nozick. He shows how conservative

ideas have worked out in the politics and policies of leading figures people

such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Salisbury, Calvin

Coolidge, Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He also

looks closely at the degree to which capitalism and free markets have been,

and are integral to, conservative ideology and politics in the UK and in the

USA. Professor Scruton's clear, incisive guide is essential reading for

anyone wishing to understand the politics and policies of the west now and

over the last three centuries.

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Imprint:   Profile
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   150g
ISBN:   9781781257524
ISBN 10:   1781257523
Series:   Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
Pages:   160
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Roger Scruton is a philosopher whose books include Art and Imagination (1974), The Meaning of Conservatism (1980), The Philosopher on Dover Beach (1990), The Aesthetics of Music (1997), Beauty (2009), How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism (2012) and Our Church (2012). In 2010 he delivered the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews on 'The Face of God'. He has been described, by Daniel Hannan, MEP, as 'The man who, more than any other, has defined what conservatism is.'

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