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The Ethical Edifice
We inhabit a world of our own making, yet we rarely question the moral character of the structures that surround us. We accept glass-and-steel monoliths, brutalist concrete expanses, and sprawling, anonymous suburbs as the price of progress. But what if this architectural landscape is not merely an aesthetic failure, but an active agent of moral decay? This was the urgent, unheeded warning of philosopher Roger Scruton, who argued that ugly buildings don’t just offend the eye—they corrode the soul, dismantle communities, and ultimately, destroy the very fabric of our moral lives.
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