The Soul of the World (First Edition) by Roger Scruton - 2014

Princeton / Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. First Edition. hardcover. Like New/Like New. 6x1x9. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in quarter black cloth with grey paper boards. 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? viii 205pp.<br><br>CONDITION: Covers are unmarked. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are tight. Full refund if not satisfied.