The Soul of the World
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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 sac
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Release date: 6 April 2014
ISBN-10 : 0691161577 | ISBN-13: 9780691161570
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Release date: 6 April 2014
ISBN-10 : 0691161577 | ISBN-13: 9780691161570