The Soul of the World

Author information: Roger Scruton is a writer and philosopher. He is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a senior fellow of the Future Symphony Institute. Among his more than forty books is "The Aesthetics of Architecture."

Blurb: 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.