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portada The Soul of the World
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2016
Language
English
Pages
216
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.1 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm
Weight
0.20 kg.
ISBN13
9780691169286
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The Soul of the World

Roger Scruton (Author) · Princeton University Press · Paperback

The Soul of the World - Roger Scruton

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Synopsis "The Soul of the World "

A compelling defense of the sacred from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton 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.
Roger Scruton
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Roger Scruton es un filósofo y escritor británico. Actualmente es Research Professor en el Institute for the Psychological Sciences donde enseña filosofía. Es especialista en estética y ha dedicado especial atención a la música y a la arquitectura.
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Rose Van Hilst Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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I have yet to read it so I can't really comment - am looking forward to a quiet space to explore it

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 Juan Felipe Rincón Hurtado Sunday, May 24, 2026
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A short but interesting book about religion, philosophy of the mind, ethics and so on. A short but condense and rich volume about a good amount of themes all around the problem of the sacred and God. Scruton articulates the thought of analytic philosophy with the thought of great classical philosophers like Spinoza, Kant or Hegel. An very interesting book.

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