In The Soul of the World, Roger Scruton suggests our humanity is bound up with a sense of the sacred, even in an age saturated with material explanations. 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. Through explorations into philosophy, art, architecture, literature, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology, Scruton mounts a defense against today's fashionable forms of atheism, demonstrating that ideas such as beauty, love, and transcendence are very much grounded in our own experience.

On Wednesday, October 29, at 12:30 p.m., join Teachers College doctoral students Ahmed Almadlouh, Daniel Davis, and Joseph Marshall for a reading group over lunch on Scruton's text, based on the Stanton Lectures, first delivered at the University of Cambridge. For this session, read chapters 3 and 4.

A copy of the book will be provided to students attending all of the sessions.