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Country
  
United States

Subject
  
The sacred

Pages
  
216

Author
  
Roger Scruton

ISBN
  
9780691161570


Language
  
English

Publication date
  
2014

Originally published
  
2014

Page count
  
216

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Media type
  
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

Publisher
  
Princeton University Press

Similar
  
Roger Scruton books, Other books

The Soul of the World is a 2014 book by the English philosopher Roger Scruton, in which Scruton argues for the reality of a transcendent dimension, and maintains that the experience of the sacred plays a decisive role even in a secular society. Scruton supports the concept of "cognitive dualism", which means that a human can be explained both as a physical organism, and as a subjective person who relates to the world through concepts which do not belong in physical sciences, and without which it would not be possible to understand human life.

Contents

Roger scruton on the soul of the world with terry eagleton and laurie taylor


Reception

Marcus Tanner reviewed the book in The Independent:

Lest any vicar feel tempted to pick up this book in search of inspiration for Sunday sermons, it should be pointed out that Scruton doesn't have much to say specifically about God or Christianity, except at the end. What he mostly defends in these essays is a thinking person's right to say no to a boiled-down Darwinism that reduces all relationships to contracts and all human behaviour and emotions to biological selection and adaptation. ... Scruton argues persuasively that much of what passes for scientific fact today is just the latest fashion in physics. But one wonders who would find this eloquent plea on behalf of the right to interpret things in various ways objectionable.

References

The Soul of the World Wikipedia