كتاب England and the Need for Nations

The nation state provides us with the surest model for peace, prosperity, and the defence of human rights. In spite of this, the idea of the nation state is under attack, derided as a cause of conflict, and destined to be replaced by more ‘enlightened’ forms of jurisdiction. This is in spite of the fact that all recent attempts to transcend the nation state into some kind of transnational political order have ended up either as totalitarian dictatorships like the former Soviet Union or as unaccountable bureaucracies like the European Union. Attempts to change the nature of the European Union in ways that will expropriate our sovereignty and annihilate the boundaries between jurisdictions have brought us to a turning point in our history. Roger Scruton writes: “I believe that we are on the brink of decisions that could prove disastrous for Europe and for the world, and that we have only a few years in which to take stock of our inheritance and to reassume it. Now more than ever do those lines from Goethe’s Faust ring true for us: Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen. What you have inherited from your forefathers, earn it, that you might own it. We in the nation states of Europe need to earn again the sovereignty that previous generations so laboriously shaped from the inheritance of Christianity, imperial government and Roman law. Earning it, we will own it, and owning it, we will be at peace within our borders.”
روجر سكروتون - روجر فيرنون سكروتن ‏، فيلسوف وكاتب إنجليزي وُلِد في 27 فبراير 1944، عضو الجمعية الملكية للأدب، زميل في الأكاديمية البريطانية، مُتخصص في فلسفة الجمال والفلسفة السياسية، لاسيما في تعزيز الآراء المحافظة التقليديّة.❰ له مجموعة من الإنجازات والمؤلفات أبرزها ❞ Kant: A Very Short Introduction ❝ ❞ Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition ❝ ❞ Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left ❝ ❞ An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy ❝ ❞ الجمال ❝ ❞ Art and Imagination ❝ ❞ A Short History of Modern Philosophy ❝ ❞ Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet ❝ ❞ Animal Rights and Wrongs ❝ الناشرين : ❞ جميع الحقوق محفوظة للمؤلف ❝ ❞ المركز القومي للترجمة ❝ ❱
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