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The Soul of the World

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Description for The Soul of the World Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 5 halftones. 5 musical examples. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691169286
SKU
V9780691169286
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About Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton is a writer and philosopher. He is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, and a senior fellow of the Future Symphony Institute. Among his more than forty books is The Aesthetics of Architecture (Princeton).

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One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Jonathan Clark One of Flavorwire's 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2014 One of the Scotsman's Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Alexander McCall Smith The interest of his project lies not so much in the conclusions themselves, but rather in the way he ... Read more

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