Roger Scruton’s - The Soul of the World

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The source text is an excerpt from Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World. It explores philosophical arguments regarding religion, morality, aesthetics and the nature of the human being. Scruton critiques evolutionary explanations of human behaviours and argues that these explanations fail to account for the full range of human experience, particularly our capacity for self-consciousness, moral judgement, and the experience of beauty and the sacred. He proposes that these uniquely human capacities are connected to our perception of ourselves as subjects, and that these subjects are not reducible to merely physical entities but exist as self-conscious individuals who inhabit a shared world of meaning and value.