Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton
Intelligence Squared
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The Importance of Music in Our Civilization
I think of cultures of all practical knowledge, something which gives you a sense of what to do. I'd like to mention this aspect of culture because it's so often overlooked. The greatest achievement of our civilization has been music. It changes their way not only of thinking about the world, but of seeing each other. Nothing can be done to enhance this acculturation by giving a Marxist theory of where it all came from. Here is something which you impart by encouraging young people to love it and to find reflected in it all that is best in themselves.
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