Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton
Intelligence Squared
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The Importance of Belonging to Culture
Culture has this in common with religion that it is offering membership. Science, I don't think, does offer membership. It offers a sort of factual knowledge about the world. But it doesn't say you belong with this. Whereas part of deconstructing what you say about the historical and context dependence of culture is to say, yes, it's like that because it's telling you, here is something that you can belong to. And I think there are forms of knowledge that only come about through belonging. Everybody needs to belong and there's nothing wrong with roots. Nor in my view, speaking as a leftist, is there anything wrong with tradition? One thing that we vitally belong
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