Roger Scruton, Ph.D.
1. Overview
2. Freedom
3. Law
4. Justice
5. Culture
6. Hegel and Pre-Political Order
7. Burke and Political Epistemology
8. Scepticism and Political Order
9. Sex
10. Ends, Means and Oakeshott
11. Constitutions
12. Some Conclusions
Topics That Should Also Be Discussed
Appendix
Hayek and Conservatism
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These notes summarize the material
presented in a series of 12 three-hour classes for Philosophy and Politics graduates at Princeton University. They are not scholarly, but are
intended as guides only, to be read in conjunction with the texts mentioned,
and to be refined and corrected through argument. The course was put together
with a view to exploring the philosophical foundations, rather than the
practical effect, of modern conservatism. The specific interests of students
attending the classes influenced the topics discussed, so that not all those
topics mentioned in the first class are covered. An inventory of relevant
topics that remain untreated appears at the end of Lecture 12.
I
refer at one point to an article of mine on Hayek and Conservatism. This will
be published soon in the Blackwell Companion to Hayek, ed. Edward Feser.
Meanwhile I attach the article as an appendix at the end of the course.
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