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gosia_maria99's review against another edition
5.0
My first Scruton, and I loved it. Fantastic.
Some of my favourite quotes:
- "All rational beings laugh— and maybe only rational beings laugh. And all rational beings benefit from laughing."
- "Aesthetic values are intrinsic values, which cannot be measured by price; they also prompt us to find intrinsic values in the world in which we live."
- "There are no intrinsic values, people believe, but at best only opinions about intrinsic values. In other words, the attempt to build a realm of intrinsic value— and that is what culture really is— is regarded with suspicion. Those who demand that the attempt nevertheless be made are a threat to the social order, since they remind us that it is not an order at all, but a kind of regimented disorder where, beneath the uniform loutishness of public life, our desires compete in chaos for their satisfaction, without any public recognition that some desires deserve fulfilment while others should be suppressed."
Some of my favourite quotes:
- "All rational beings laugh— and maybe only rational beings laugh. And all rational beings benefit from laughing."
- "Aesthetic values are intrinsic values, which cannot be measured by price; they also prompt us to find intrinsic values in the world in which we live."
- "There are no intrinsic values, people believe, but at best only opinions about intrinsic values. In other words, the attempt to build a realm of intrinsic value— and that is what culture really is— is regarded with suspicion. Those who demand that the attempt nevertheless be made are a threat to the social order, since they remind us that it is not an order at all, but a kind of regimented disorder where, beneath the uniform loutishness of public life, our desires compete in chaos for their satisfaction, without any public recognition that some desires deserve fulfilment while others should be suppressed."
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