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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction: Philosophy, Policy and Doctrine -- 1. The Conservative Attitude -- 2. Authority and Allegiance -- 3. Constitution and the State -- 4. Law and Liberty -- 5. Property -- 6. Alienated Labour -- 7. The Autonomous Institution -- 8. Establishment -- 9. The Public World -- Philosophical Appendix: Liberalism versus Conservatism -- Notes -- Index.

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. --

A collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator, Roger Scruton. Scruton explores the conflict between the Christian-inspired Enlightenment and Islam, and attempts to find a remedy for the void at the heart of our civilisation. Why do we capitulate before everyone more ignorant than ourselves? Why do we turn immediately on all those who wish to defend our rooted values against whatever invading force has appeared over the horizon? These hard-hitting essays from a profound intellect threaten the bedrock of conventional opinion --

Believing in God -- Looking for people -- Looking at the brain -- The first-person plural -- Facing each other -- Facing the earth -- The sacred space of music -- Seeking God. "In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone." -- book jacket

Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these fallacies, Scruton mounts a passionate defence of both civil society and freedom. He shows that the true legacy of European civilisation is not the false idealisms that have almost destroyed it - in the shapes of Nazism, fascism and communism - but the culture of forgiveness and irony which we must now protect from those whom it offends. The Uses of Pessimism is a passionate plea for reason and responsi

The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources. In Green Philosophy, Scruton argues that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism. He shows that rather than entrusting the environment to unwieldy NGOs and international committees, we must assume personal responsibility and foster local sovereignty. People must be empowered to take charge of their environ

Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern philosophy. Always engaging, Scruton takes us on a fascinating tour of the subject, from founding father Descartes to the most important and famous philosopher of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein. He identifies all the principal figures as well as outlines of the main intellectual preoccupations that have informed western philosophy. Painting a portrait of modern philosophy that is vivid and

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- 1. The Nature of Philosophy -- 2. Scepticism -- 3. Some More-isms -- 4. Self, Mind and Body -- 5. The Private Language Argument -- 6. Sense and Reference -- 7. Descriptions and Logical Form -- 8. Things and Properties -- 9. Truth -- 10. Appearance and Reality -- 11. God -- 12. Being -- 13. Necessity and the a priori -- 14. Cause -- 15. Science -- 16. The Soul -- 17. Freedom -- 18. The Human World -- 19. Meaning -- 20. Morality -- 21. Life, Death and Identity -- 22. Knowledge -- 23. Perception -- 24. Imagination -- 25. Space and Time -- 26. Mathematics -- 27. Paradox -- 28. Objective Spirit -- 29. Subjective Spirit -- 30. The Devil -- 31. Self and Other -- Study Guide -- A Note on the Author -- Also by the Author -- eCopyright