The soul of the world
Scruton, Roger2016
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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.
Main title:
The soul of the world / Roger Scruton.
Author:
Scruton, Roger, author
Imprint:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016.Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016.
Collation:
216 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780691169286 (pbk)
Dewey class:
202
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2318163