It has been just over two years since the English philosopher, political thinker, and man of letters Roger Scruton lost his short, grueling battle with cancer. Scruton was a philosopher in the rich, capacious sense that predates the narrow disciplinary, and sub-disciplinary, distinctions that dominate and, in crucial respects, deform the contemporary university. He aimed at a comprehensive or “architectonic” grasp of the human condition without losing an appreciation of the irreducible mystery at the heart of things.
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