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 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.