The Soul of the World

The Soul of the World

Cover of the first edition
Author Roger Scruton
Country United States
Language English
Subject The sacred
Publisher Princeton University Press
Publication date
2014
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 216
ISBN 9780691161570

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.

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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.[1]

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