Thank you. As a newcomer to this subject I find it quite challenging to understand but thanks to this exposition some glimmers of light did fire up inside my brain.
Intriguing suggestion that Scruton's loyalty to Kant was borne out of an attraction to scientific rigour, certainly consistent with his analytic philosophical upbringing. In theory Scruton was Kantian, but In life, he was Hegelian. Which also raises an important qualification of Hegel's Idealism- which was embodied, full blooded, not a rationalist imposition on reality. It is an idealism in the sense that reason is at home in the world, not in the sense that mind creates reality.
Thank you. As a newcomer to this subject I find it quite challenging to understand but thanks to this exposition some glimmers of light did fire up inside my brain.
Intriguing suggestion that Scruton's loyalty to Kant was borne out of an attraction to scientific rigour, certainly consistent with his analytic philosophical upbringing. In theory Scruton was Kantian, but In life, he was Hegelian. Which also raises an important qualification of Hegel's Idealism- which was embodied, full blooded, not a rationalist imposition on reality. It is an idealism in the sense that reason is at home in the world, not in the sense that mind creates reality.
He must have had some charisma to get his landlady pregnant.