The Soul of the World : Paperback : Princeton University Press : 9780691169286 : 0691169284 : 22 Mar 2016 : 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...