Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton fascinates me because he refused the easy intellectual fashions of his era. From a modest Lincolnshire village to Cambridge, he built a body of work spanning aesthetics, architecture, politics and religion, defending conservative ideas with unusual elegance rather than anger. What I admire most is that he treated beauty as a serious philosophical subject when many dismissed it, and even composed music himself. Whether or not you share his politics, his honesty and range are hard to ignore. The Czech medal he earned reminds me his influence quietly crossed borders. To me he remains a genuinely consequential, courageous thinker.

Name (English)

Roger Scruton

Name (Japanese)

ロジャー・スクルートン

Reading

ろじゃー・すくるーとん

Born

February 27, 1944 – January 12, 2020

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

Origin

Buslingthorpe, United Kingdom

Occupation

philosopher / political scientist / university teacher / composer / politician

University

University of Cambridge

Awards & achievements

• 1998 Czech Medal of Merit
• 1996 1st of June Award
• Fellow of the British Academy
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• 2016 Sappho Award
• 1998 honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University
• 2019 Silver Medal of the President of the Senate
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

• Official sitehttps://www.roger-scruton.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Scruton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445939

Tags

• philosopher
• political scientist
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-19

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