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The Soul of the World (Paperback)
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The Soul of the World (Paperback)
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In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton
defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable
forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral
intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent
dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science
alone. To be fully alive--and to understand what we are--is to
acknowledge the reality of sacred things. Rather than an argument
for the existence of God, or a defense of the truth of religion,
the book is an extended reflection on why a sense of the sacred is
essential to human life--and what the final loss of the sacred
would mean. In short, the book addresses the most important
question of modernity: what is left of our aspirations after
science has delivered its verdict about what we are? Drawing on
art, architecture, music, and literature, Scruton suggests that the
highest forms of human experience and expression tell the story of
our religious need, and of our quest for the being who might answer
it, and that this search for the sacred endows the world with a
soul. Evolution cannot explain our conception of the sacred;
neuroscience is irrelevant to our interpersonal relationships,
which provide a model for our posture toward God; and scientific
understanding has nothing to say about the experience of beauty,
which provides a God's-eye perspective on reality. Ultimately, a
world without the sacred would be a completely different world--one
in which we humans are not truly at home. Yet despite the shrinking
place for the sacred in today's world, Scruton says, the paths to
transcendence remain open.
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