Stanley L. Jaki

Modern man has for some time been in a desperate search for his very soul and is unable to find it. Obviously there has to be something very defective in modern man’s method of searching for his soul.

The frustration results in despair about one’s very self, or about an abiding personal purpose that survives as a personal consciousness one’s greatest frustration of which is bodily death.

The three chapters of this book probe the reasons why the question – Is there a soul? – reasserts itself with an elemental force.

Three main reasons are surveyed in this book. One is man’s ability to know; another is his inability not to will and not to act for a purpose; and still another is his ability to love and his need of love, which is not a sentiment but a selfless caring.

Instead of giving formal proofs of the existence of an immortal, individual human soul, the book presents the promptings that keep the human being to see in himself or herself something infintely more than a lump of matter, however intricate.