Scruton Lectures 2023 - Douglas Murray on The Life and Legacy of Sir Roger Scruton

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  • @jipdejaag4366
    @jipdejaag4366 Рік тому +172

    Douglas Murray at his scintillating best. How blessed England is to have this brilliant intellect in our midst. Cherish this man especially now.

    • @kitkakitteh
      @kitkakitteh Рік тому

      Yeah, and Canada gets Jordan Peterson. We’re stuck with that blowhard Sam Harris. Eek.

    • @teutonictosh
      @teutonictosh Рік тому +2

      Not as blessed as Israel is.

    • @user-tp6mt5gx6f
      @user-tp6mt5gx6f Рік тому

    • @abbefolkseger6927
      @abbefolkseger6927 Рік тому

      Buttman promoting Circumsision= Worst form of Goy

    • @joanka65
      @joanka65 Рік тому +1

      How bless we all are having him.
      Joanna from Poland

  • @lievevandrepol9039
    @lievevandrepol9039 Рік тому +96

    Bloody hell, this was soo beautiful, and very educative too. Makes you feel human in a way you were searching for.Thank you ever so much 💖💖💖💖

  • @anneoconnor5907
    @anneoconnor5907 Рік тому +107

    I'm not a conservative but Murray's words drew tears. What a wonderful friend that man is.

    • @GarethGriffiths-j7i
      @GarethGriffiths-j7i Рік тому

      He wanted to conserve what we had. He looked at the 1968 uprisings and saw only comfortable middle class pricks demanding something they didn't even want or know, he realized it was all a sham. At Uni I was taught to despise him, that he was some right wing regressive. How wrong I was he was a window on the World. I would re evaluate your thinking. Look at the Labour benches a shower of sh1T if ever there was one. Useless and intellectually dumb. Intellect has always been on the Right i discovered because it has to answer the realities of progress not be some sad regressive force.

    • @Hollis_has_questions
      @Hollis_has_questions Рік тому +1

      I'm not a __________, and Douglas Murray brought me to tears. For the second time. And I've always appreciated the great actor Kevin Spacey. (Especially in The Ref.) I did not and will not ever cancel him.

    • @Abraham_Tsfaye
      @Abraham_Tsfaye 8 місяців тому

      Scruton allegedly sexually abused young boys.
      Now that he's dead.
      These victims will not receive justice.

  • @Mark_Dyer1
    @Mark_Dyer1 Рік тому +44

    Wow! Loyalty in true friendship is Douglas Murray.

  • @vonrecht1236
    @vonrecht1236 Рік тому +73

    Sir Roger Scruton....greatly missed!

  • @miyojewoltsnasonth2159
    @miyojewoltsnasonth2159 Рік тому +24

    I'm really glad something called the "Roger Scruton Memorial Lectures" has been created, and I'm glad Douglas Murray's talk about Roger Scruton came up as a UA-cam suggestion.

  • @johnforeman634
    @johnforeman634 Рік тому +19

    Man, this guy Douglas is something else! I don’t think I’ve ever heard him speak of anything where I wasn’t absolutely captivated.

  • @richardjoslin2549
    @richardjoslin2549 Рік тому +50

    Douglas on absolutely top form here. I love this man for all he is and all he stands for. He is our beacon in an increasingly crazy and dystopian world.

    • @Abraham_Tsfaye
      @Abraham_Tsfaye 8 місяців тому

      Scruton allegedly sexually abused young boys.
      Now that he's dead.
      These victims will not receive justice.

  • @BlueBaron3339
    @BlueBaron3339 11 місяців тому +8

    Just finished The Madness of Crowds today and had already read his book The War on the West. But I've never seen Douglas Murray like this. Heartfelt to the near breaking point at the end. He could barely read the words on the page. And to choose Kevin Spacey to read that scene, that was brilliant. Both the choice and, of course, the performance. Outstanding! And deeply moving.

  • @adamsmith-wi3qg
    @adamsmith-wi3qg Рік тому +13

    A video pops up on my YT feed of Douglas Murray talking about Sir Roger Scruton and I instantly assume he will be talking about beauty. I was not disappointed. 🤌

  • @jeandevalette8860
    @jeandevalette8860 Рік тому +24

    This was absolutely wonderful. Murray's words were so perfectly apt, and Spacey was, as ever, shockingly good. Gave me hope in the face of the Woke Plague. Thanks to all of you - very much - for this.

  • @CarliMichelle
    @CarliMichelle 11 місяців тому +6

    I am so unbelievably grateful for this man

  • @PaulMann8666
    @PaulMann8666 Рік тому +14

    The meeting of Roger Scruton and Douglas Murray was a blessing. It shows how much we miss integrity and clarity of thought, and dignity and respect in our usual relationships with each other.

  • @denali9643
    @denali9643 Рік тому +79

    Douglas is one of the most important, intelligent, boldly honest voices of our day. I’ve not seen him read a speech like this, as he is always so brilliant as he seemingly speaks extemporaneously, while all listening know how much preparation lie behind the seeming improv.
    But for Roger, every word, every sentence, every paragraph, and the order of delivery was supremely sought in esteem of the great one.

  • @noneyerbusiness203
    @noneyerbusiness203 Рік тому +11

    so good to see Spacey back.

  • @Abe489
    @Abe489 Рік тому +44

    Douglas voice of today. How we need him in this dark time.

  • @asaiira
    @asaiira Рік тому +6

    This is enhanting. This is why western civilization is important and why we need to defend and protect it against all.

  • @anaglyphx
    @anaglyphx Рік тому +77

    I was excommunicated from a study group because I wanted to read Scruton. Total madness.

    • @jake7856
      @jake7856 Рік тому +21

      Indeed. You are, obviously, better off without that enlightened study group.

    • @Happyheretic2308
      @Happyheretic2308 Рік тому +6

      I’ve been reading him, while waiting for my benefits appointment. It’s my way of sticking one up to the system.

    • @donaldcatton4028
      @donaldcatton4028 Рік тому +2

      It’s good to be excommunicated but better to excommunicate your excommunications…

    • @GarethGriffiths-j7i
      @GarethGriffiths-j7i Рік тому +5

      Same Uni saw him as a evil dwarf. I was such a fool to believe that middle class take on a brilliant mind.

    • @thewellandvalley2103
      @thewellandvalley2103 Рік тому +10

      When I was studying Theology at Cambridge University, I brought along a Scruton book that I had been reading that week to a seminar to put some of his points to the group. The supervisor responded with: ‘He’s a bit conservative you know.’ … brilliant.

  • @gregoryforde7447
    @gregoryforde7447 7 місяців тому +2

    I'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Douglas. Douglas Murray is one of those Gentlemen that brings about greatness in others. I respect and admire him a great deal. Thank You.

  • @manusha1349
    @manusha1349 Рік тому +18

    Douglas Murray is the saviour of western civilization ❤ listening to his erudite, insightful speeches is a balm for the soul. I miss Christopher Hitchens, but Douglas more than makes up for it.

  •  Рік тому +24

    Hello, Douglas and team! I have just watched the speech and I heard you mentioning the portuguese subtitles of “Why Beauty Matter”. It is true, Roger’s documentary is a HUGE sucess here in Brazil. Actually, you are either, given that your Books are now translated into brazilian portuguese. I have spread Roger’s work since 2011 and yours as well since 2017! My best wishes! I am either a distant and anonymous pupil of Scruton. If Belgium is strange, let’s imagine Brazil! 😅

    • @nabormendonca5742
      @nabormendonca5742 Рік тому +2

      I wonder how you can measure a documentary’s success here in Brazil. Your own perception? 😏

    •  Рік тому +2

      @@nabormendonca5742
      Quando estava no UA-cam, tinha visualizações na casa do milhão. O próprio fato de haver legendagem em português e em nenhum outro idioma, chamando a atenção do Murray, já mostra que há uma demanda de interesse acima da média. Agora se o critério for aparecer no horário do Jornal Nacional, aí realmente não.

  • @jeromedenis100
    @jeromedenis100 Рік тому +24

    Thank you Douglas...so necessary and so beautifully expressed.

  • @svetlanabrodsky2215
    @svetlanabrodsky2215 5 місяців тому

    Douglas Murray is amazing. This is one of his best speeches.

  • @kirstenneil7067
    @kirstenneil7067 Рік тому +6

    Delightfully eloquent. A joy to listen to. 😀

  • @dantevelazquez1151
    @dantevelazquez1151 Рік тому +15

    A very fine Thinker/Speaker eulogizes the Great Sir Roger Scruton. BRAVO !!

  • @robkeeleycomposer
    @robkeeleycomposer Рік тому +17

    It's especially good that such a great thinker as Douglas is able to cite Benjamin Britten and Gabriel Fauré along with Holderlin Kant and Rilke. Fabulous.

  • @fourhorsemen8277
    @fourhorsemen8277 Рік тому +31

    How is Douglas Murray so brilliant?

  • @justinclark7883
    @justinclark7883 Рік тому +15

    really enjoyed being there that day - superb

  • @ileanamuntean7338
    @ileanamuntean7338 Рік тому +11

    Roger Scruton's spirit lives on through Douglas.

  • @metgirl5429
    @metgirl5429 Рік тому +9

    What a great talk and a surprise guest ♥️
    Thank you all 🕊🙏🏻🕊

  • @dewijlr
    @dewijlr Рік тому +16

    Very moving speech!

  • @perperson199
    @perperson199 Рік тому +29

    One of the best ever from Murray

    • @EyeByBrian
      @EyeByBrian Рік тому

      Nonsense. He is best in the cut and thrust of socio-political opinion staking, especially when against an opponent. This was mildly cringe-inducing, distastefully snarky (a very Murray tendency, that), and philosophically tepid.

  • @bertieboo
    @bertieboo Рік тому +9

    Douglas Murry is a genuine gent x

  • @CarliMichelle
    @CarliMichelle 11 місяців тому +2

    Perhaps the greatest speech of our age…it is like a symphony

  • @SmartK8
    @SmartK8 Рік тому +18

    Sir Roger Scruton was a beacon of hope in communist Czechoslovakia.

  • @andresbenalcazar
    @andresbenalcazar Місяць тому

    Scruton & Murray. What a perfect combo! Love from Colombia.

  • @MrMicronano
    @MrMicronano Рік тому +20

    If you had a liberal arts education curriculum comprised solely of reading and discussing Scruton/Sowell/Murray you’d have received a very fine education indeed.

  • @CarliMichelle
    @CarliMichelle 11 місяців тому +1

    Oh how desperately I needed this soul food. So glad I saved it.

  • @gregorschoner9682
    @gregorschoner9682 Рік тому +3

    Very interesting and partly challenging conversation! Bravo

  • @antoniahowarth-wass5001
    @antoniahowarth-wass5001 Рік тому +5

    I cried! It was just. And so was I!

  • @JaredDorfman
    @JaredDorfman Рік тому +9

    Israel, look into our eyes, You are the ALL MIGHTY❤❤💛💚💙💜 We stand by you forever. You are the reason why we are great. Jesus is great. God is great. Douglas Murray, you are a gem of all gems.

  • @anettesandgren3338
    @anettesandgren3338 Рік тому +6

    I adore you Douglas Murray! ❤❤❤

  • @vonrecht1236
    @vonrecht1236 Рік тому +21

    "Roger was bigger than the age..." Yes. Very much bigger.

  • @fancypants90210
    @fancypants90210 Рік тому +7

    Kevin Spacey! The man!!!

  • @Leon-en9il
    @Leon-en9il Рік тому +15

    Problem is being intelligent, factual, honest and well intentioned doesn’t gel well with todays muddled world. 😢

  • @TheJeffMiller
    @TheJeffMiller Рік тому +13

    Wonderful!

  • @stormwarning9182
    @stormwarning9182 9 місяців тому

    Such an extraordinary experience! The beautiful lecture of Douglas Murray and powerful performance of Kevin Spacey left me feeling the words of Roger Scruton quoted by Murray come to life, as if the computer screen I was watching this on became THAT window - "....we suddenly come across a window through which we catch sight of another brighter world, a world to which we belong but cannot enter".

  • @daheikkinen
    @daheikkinen Рік тому +4

    Wow. Was not expecting Kevin Spacey to suddenly show up

  • @BlueInk912
    @BlueInk912 Рік тому +16

    RIP Roger Scruton.

  • @nilimendelsohn
    @nilimendelsohn Рік тому +3

    Thank you.

  • @frankandstern8803
    @frankandstern8803 Рік тому +1

    I did not come to awareness of Mr. Scrutin untill the last couple of years of his life but was immediately attentive.

  • @girlinagale
    @girlinagale Рік тому +2

    Perfect speech for Radio 4 Christmas lecture.

  • @davidspropaganda
    @davidspropaganda Рік тому +7

    I have 2 versions of 'Why Beauty Matters", Roger Scruton's 2009 BBC documentary on my channel. I have other BBC content on my channel which the BBC know is there and make a copyright claim for, but they do not block it. They do however block Roger's film, so UA-cam will not let you see it. I can see it but you can't. The blocking is clearly political activism because no one has managed to get a copy to stay on UA-cam, though there is a vast quantity of BBC programming successfully uploaded, over which they make a copyright claim but allow to stay up. "Why Beauty Matters" is never shown on the BBC player either - Never.

  • @yl5757
    @yl5757 2 місяці тому

    Great talk.

  • @AuditorInvestor
    @AuditorInvestor 10 місяців тому

    Just learning about Sir Scruton, and the Spectator - look forward to consuming all their works.

  • @nancyjimeno7001
    @nancyjimeno7001 10 місяців тому

    Alone in my kitchen, I stood and gave Kevin Spacey applause! Wow.

  • @Renaultforum
    @Renaultforum Рік тому +7

    ..a world of which we belong but cannot enter..

  • @sdm12342002
    @sdm12342002 9 місяців тому

    Speechless.

  • @chrissi3193
    @chrissi3193 Рік тому +5

    What a great line of thought.
    Scruton to Sacks and then onto Murray.
    Turns out that we need only one thinker per generation to keep a crack evident. Where the light gets in, to quote yet another prophet and wise seeker.
    Only wish Murray would get brave and shaft the green, covid agendas...time to expand to the massive elephants of evil that hes not addressed yet.
    We need him.

    • @chrissi3193
      @chrissi3193 Рік тому

      Having heard it all, isn't it good to know that beauty leads everybody inevitably to Truth and the transcending value of it to all of us?
      We can't help it ..Beauty leads to Truth and our meaning,purpose and our uniqueness as individuals made in G-ds image, as created beings .
      All concerned here should be proud of getting there and not leaving it. Be nice if we verbalised it though!

  • @morganp7238
    @morganp7238 11 місяців тому +1

    well done, man

  • @CyndeLooWho
    @CyndeLooWho 7 місяців тому +1

    I want Douglas Murray to read bedtime stories so I can fall asleep to his voice. The small shots of poetry he does for The Free Press are too short!

  • @iancognito6920
    @iancognito6920 Рік тому +3

    Scruton, a true legend

  • @yendid7587
    @yendid7587 Рік тому +2

    Je pleure, Roger Scruton toujours dans mon coeur

  • @peggyoban4069
    @peggyoban4069 Рік тому +5

    “Short of revelation, the beautiful is the best chance we have to approach the Devine.” …Yes.
    Dear Mr. Murray, God has revealed Himself. His most personal revelation was His own son-his son’s life and character, as sons often do reveal their fathers. Don’t cheat yourself of the most personal and indeed most beautiful revelation.

  • @soyyoroaldo
    @soyyoroaldo Рік тому +1

    Excellent video, bracing. Thanks for posting.
    The leftish philosopher in the post-lecture discussion relates when he first met Roger Scruton they had urgent questions for each other and his to Scruton was: “How can you be a conservative and not have any critical words about capitalism?” Oh my goodness! What if I were asked? Where to start…
    How about: A capitalist knows there is no free lunch - but with capitalism LOVE is free!
    When people are free, capitalism is what people do. And when they are free an exchange between two people will not happen unless both feel they both benefit. They both say Thank you! at the end of the transaction. That is the fundamental premise why it works. The fundamental premise of other systems, - Socialism, Communism - which require taking away peoples freedom - is that all exchanges involve necessarily a winner and a loser and it is the purpose of the state to flatten this out. In a socialist system there is no need to say Thank you - and so people don’t; you thank the State. Socialism flattens out life.
    In capitalism where both sides benefit, in the end, the material good exchanged is secondary, the least important aspect of the interaction in fact. The human interaction - where both sides are pleased they have found each other and made an exchange - is the most important thing, what actually matters. In this way capitalism’s center is an immaterial reality at heart, whereas Socialism’s is entirely an material center. This is why religion and other transcendental aspirations flourish in capitalist societies, and it is why state Socialism requires the mandate of atheism.
    Capitalism’s central nature is spiritual and human which is conservatism; socialisms central nature is material and mechanistic which is progressivism.
    This profound difference all follows quite logically from the differing economic premises of both.
    That’s something how I might answer the good philosopher’s question were I asked: In capitalism love is free.

  • @starsine9062
    @starsine9062 Рік тому

    Thank you

  • @AuditorInvestor
    @AuditorInvestor 10 місяців тому +1

    Wow didn't expect Kevin Spacey, undoubtedly magnetic actor - media doesn't care that he was exonerated.

  • @frankandstern8803
    @frankandstern8803 Рік тому +1

    13:10 This was my first approach to Plato. I remember reading 'The Last Days Of Socrates ' in the sunny backyard somewhere in Niagara region, Southern Ontario in 2001.

  • @westfield90
    @westfield90 Рік тому +5

    What an incredible speaker he is

  • @keesbergacker761
    @keesbergacker761 Рік тому +1

    Beautiful

  • @TheRealValus
    @TheRealValus Рік тому +3

    'Who the deepest has thought loves what is most alive
    Wide experience may well turn to what's best in youth
    And the wise in the end will often bow to the beautiful.'
    ~ Friedrich Hölderlin

  • @nancyhoffman846
    @nancyhoffman846 Рік тому +1

    The men in the arena vs. the shallows, the critics, the mob in groupthink made visible in sharp relief.

  • @Bobby-rq5eg
    @Bobby-rq5eg Рік тому +4

    This is mental!!! What a convoluted way of speaking. I'm quite frankly shocked by Kevin - something is off I'm telling you!!!

  • @seeriktus
    @seeriktus Рік тому +1

    24:30 "Why don't we just do more of this"
    Couldn't agree more, been saying this to my family too. It's one of those things where, once you've said it, it seems so obvious.

  • @vz6365
    @vz6365 Рік тому

    I just want to cry.

  • @thenewhindemithians8629
    @thenewhindemithians8629 Рік тому +2

    32:55 Such power. So true. Yes.

  • @paulmicks7097
    @paulmicks7097 Рік тому +5

    I like the way gay British men speak better than American gay men.

  • @JohnPatrickWeiss
    @JohnPatrickWeiss Рік тому

    Brilliant.

  • @deanedge5988
    @deanedge5988 Рік тому +6

    Amongst his gifts Douglas Murray is a master of just invective and denunciation. Januszczak is usually better than his mean spirited and rather stupid attack on Sir Roger but Andrew Gwyne (who he?) richly merits this account of his shortcomings; one hopes kind friends will draw it to his attention.

  • @noneyerbusiness203
    @noneyerbusiness203 Рік тому

    This was a feast.

  • @SuperBlinding
    @SuperBlinding Рік тому +1

    Douglas Murray let a " Lot Slip " with his Council Estate anecdote ! ! !
    Sometimes they show us, how far removed they are from ' Ordinary ' People.
    And I do usually ( but not always ) enjoy Douglas Murray's stuff.

    • @samcad-ho3ze
      @samcad-ho3ze Рік тому +1

      I think he was referring to the ‘beauty’ (or lack thereof) of how modern housing is built.

    • @bobtaylor170
      @bobtaylor170 Рік тому +2

      I'm not English, I'm American, and therefore imagine I know what council housing is - essentially public housing. In the United States, our public housing is terribly dreary, being featureless buildings whom any sane person would go a little nuts living in. Why couldn't it be at least pleasant, if not beautiful?
      In America, we have The National Civic Arts Society, which comprises architects and those who merely yearn for a return to beautiful, classical architecture. There is currently a bill in Congress which, if it passes, would mandate that all federal buildings which are built in the future must be designed along neoclassical standards. God knows how much I hope it passes.
      I consider contemporary architecture a blight not just upon my own life, but upon those of many others. It aids and abets anomie and, I am convinced, clinical depression.

  • @jimmycricket7385
    @jimmycricket7385 Рік тому +1

    I know that the most common and crude labourer is quite capable of appreciating the ineffable and transcendent aspects of life. Many highly educated people seem totally unaware of this fact.

  • @mariussielcken
    @mariussielcken Рік тому +3

    31:15 there's laughing, but obeying a cancel mob is the greatest threat to democracy.

  • @mariussielcken
    @mariussielcken Рік тому

    Even the word 'understanding' implies transcendentalism, and may well refer to standing under the starry sky.

  • @georgep4465
    @georgep4465 Рік тому

    O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
    Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
    With forest branches and the trodden weed;
    Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
    As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
    When old age shall this generation waste,
    Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
    Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
    "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all
    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

  • @aroemaliuged4776
    @aroemaliuged4776 Рік тому +1

    I just got a warning from UA-cam
    Don’t criticize scrutin
    He must be a fkn angelic in our mist

  • @mariussielcken
    @mariussielcken Рік тому

    Restore the honors of Sir Sidney Watson!!!!!

  • @EyeByBrian
    @EyeByBrian Рік тому +6

    The word for Murray’s performance here is portentous, most especially in his Eton schoolboy straining for philosophical weightiness. Leaning on Kant (a la Scruton, of course) to make grand points about art is particularly open to challenge as Kant in his Critique of Judgement (1790) is speaking overwhelmingly of natural beauty, very little does Kant make of artistic beauty-though, yes, of course there is a huge literature in the history of aesthetics which attempts to explicate from the Critique an expansive theory of art. Much more profound about art is Hegel, but that is another story. For those interested in hearing Scruton’s rather simplistic conception of art and culture challenged-or, make up your own mind-watch on UA-cam Scruton’s discussion with Terry Eagleton from an Intelligence Squared ‘debate’.

  • @myrahouse2368
    @myrahouse2368 Рік тому +1

    Talking about age when was this actually filmed?

  • @cstevenson5256
    @cstevenson5256 Рік тому +1

    Arent we supposed to be bashing Murray, and ignoring him, because we are close minded homophobic bigots. Love his diction, of course his reasoning ability and way with words.

    • @RationalistMH
      @RationalistMH 10 місяців тому

      Actually yes. Pathetic a gay man would praise someone who called homophobia a good and natural thing that should be encouraged. Murray has 0 self respect and conservatives are just as anti gay as ever before.

  • @eddyk2016
    @eddyk2016 Рік тому +1

    Does anyone know the art critic that slandered Roger and the "snake" interviewer Douglas is referring to?

  • @HarryKay_
    @HarryKay_ Рік тому

    when is the Thiel lecture going to be uploaded?

  • @TJ-kk5zf
    @TJ-kk5zf Рік тому +2

    worthy of Emerson

  • @IK-wc4od
    @IK-wc4od Рік тому +2

    He tarnishes Scrutons memory by bringing that well known letch into his speech.

    • @Nill757
      @Nill757 Рік тому +4

      “Well known”
      There are the leopards spots at work. Somebody passed gas through the entirety of Timon of Athens. Who will you dismiss tomorrow?

  • @wishdish
    @wishdish 8 місяців тому

    And dear Douglas appears to have a cold....and still over delivers.

  • @aroemaliuged4776
    @aroemaliuged4776 Рік тому

    I commented about scrutin and UA-cam violated every right known too humanity

  • @phoebebeacham9816
    @phoebebeacham9816 Рік тому

    Kate Bush sings to you England my Lion heart ❤️

  • @omarjoelzaki
    @omarjoelzaki Рік тому

    He sounds slightly like Snape

  • @TheWhitehiker
    @TheWhitehiker Рік тому

    Skip intro, but good stuff.

  • @aroemaliuged4776
    @aroemaliuged4776 Рік тому

    UA-cam called me out for saying scrutin is a human being