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(2005) Genocide and human rights, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Genocide, despair, and religious hope

an essay on human nature

Stephen T. Davis

pp. 35-45

Occasionally we have experiences that make us proud to be members of the human race. When we watch a play by Shakespeare, or listen to a Mozart symphony, or look at a Rembrandt painting, or admire an Ansel Adams photograph, or benefit from a medical discovery—in those moments we feel thrilled and uplifted. We sense that this sort of thing is the work of homo sapiens at its best.

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230554832_4

Full citation:

Davis, S. T. (2005)., Genocide, despair, and religious hope: an essay on human nature, in J. K. Roth (ed.), Genocide and human rights, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 35-45.

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