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In The Heart of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the knowledge of the sacred against today's elegant types of atheism. He argues our personal romantic relationships, moral intuitions, and visual judgments hint at a transcendent aspect that can't be comprehended through the zoom lens of science by themselves. To be completely alive - and to understand what our company is - is to acknowledge the truth of sacred things. Rather than an argument for the living of God, or a defense of the reality of religion, the book can be an extended reflection on why a feeling of the sacred is vital to individuals life - and what the final lack of the sacred would mean. In a nutshell, the reserve addresses the most crucial question of modernity: What is left in our aspirations after research has delivered its verdict about what we are? Drawing on art work, architecture, music, and books, Scruton suggests that the highest types of individuals experience and appearance tell the storyline of our spiritual need, and of our quest for the being who might answer it, and that this seek out the sacred endows the earth with a spirit. Evolution cannot describe our conception of the sacred; neuroscience is irrelevant to our social relationships, which give a model for our position toward God; and technological understanding has nothing to say about the knowledge of beauty, which gives a God's-eye point of view on reality. Ultimately, a global with no sacred would be a completely different world - one where we humans are not truly at home. Yet despite the shrinking place for the sacred in today's world, Scruton says, the paths to transcendence continue to be open.
