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Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton

Intelligence Squared

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The Limits of Accessibility

Roger Bannister: What you can't do is accept passively certain values which you're handed by certain cultural autocrats. That's a good old socialist case, and that's what the right is very nervous of. We don't need some transcendental criteria that we have both to subscribe to in order to argue," he says. "There are all kinds of right answers with certain degrees of loss" 'We may run the risk of implying that there is a universal human self that we can all discover through culture,' she adds.

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