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The Need for Beauty and the Scrutonian Legacy: An Interview with Ferenc Hörcher
The most important thing for Scruton was to show that beauty can lead us from worldly concerns to the most important themes of our lives.
The most important thing for Scruton was to show that beauty can lead us from worldly concerns to the most important themes of our lives.
Museum President Laurence des Cars described this as a positive “symbol” in “a sea of sadness and desolation.”
The lord of the underworld and his Persephone stand before the stark fruits of Puritanism and modern industry.
Modern man has bought into the broken merchandise of aesthetic subjectivism, after first embracing ethical subjectivism, resulting in countless works of art that deify ugliness as if it were a new form of beauty.
By locating the essence of traditional architecture in the primacy of character over concrete—the pattern we see over the material we don’t—Semper championed particularity over uniformity.
The one question that Christianity-hating MEP Malin Björk does not want to ask is: what would replace Western society if she got what she wanted? A new Soviet Union? An Islamic caliphate? In which of these would Malin Björk be treated better than in the very Western society for which she has such deep disdain?
The courage of George combined with the inexorable force of his white charger as they form a single centaurial juggernaut of unstoppable power is a perfect portrayal of Christian meekness.
The green banner of environmentalism rightfully belongs to those who resist the ideology of entropy, the global breakdown of every function and form, from borders to genders.
The Three Kings represent the truth-seekers of the earth, the rulers of the ‘pagan’ realm, the lands which had not yet seen God but were nonetheless expecting the coming of the Lord.
It is often claimed that these actions are completely free of violence, but this is not the case. There is verbal violence, there is simulated, theatrical violence against works of art, and that is violence too.
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