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This essay explores examples where “moral beauty” has broken through a certain darkness that seems to envelope our human spaces with an overwhelming sense of evil. I look at the faces of this evil and discuss how moral beauty shows itself in a chorus of acts of hope, compassion and generosity, remorse, forgiveness and reconciliation.
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© 2009 Richard H. Bell
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Bell, R.H. (2009). “Moral Beauty Happens”. In: Tabensky, P.A. (eds) The Positive Function of Evil. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230242265_5
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