Aesthetics

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>>9661473
shameless bump ;(

>>9661473
Roger Scrotum is a fuddydud who mixes up beauty with morality. That being said, it was an interesting read. He sure does get pissed off about those pissoirs of Paris. And I agree with him about modern architecture as well as pop music being played everywhere, but what sane person wouldn't?

>>9661730
Except he doesn't, both beauty and morality are value judgements so there are similarities in the way they function. Scruton, as with every virtue ethicist, uses the two to springboard ideas off each other and better understand them.

>>9661473
>taking scruton seriously

>Hello lit.
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>I have always been terribly interested in Aesthetics
You mean you have a terrible interest in Aesthetics. You really should have been more honest and said "I like pretty things but I don't have the capacity or effort to say worthwhile things about them"

>>9661473
>reading Rodger ''to understand Beethoven you have to smoke Chesterfield cigarettes'' Scruton

>>9662088
>>9662091
Tobacco hack or not, he's probably the best read on aesthetics for a layperson after cultural forces and the mainstream rejection of virtue ethics nearly destroyed the whole enterprise.

I plagiarized the whole intro chapter of The Aesthetics of Architecture for an English class paper, needed to choose our own topic and I was given months to complete it but I waited until the last second. It was the first book sitting on top of my shelf, from my reading he sounded like a oldfag who needs to get with the times

you want leon krier and christopher alexander for architecture

barzun and durant for history

gombrich for art

and - yes - icycalm for videogames

>>9661473
Scruton is based. The extent to which he annoys all the right people is part of the fun.
His stuff about Paris 1968 is required reading.