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emotions; it is also to conceive the possibility of educating, and as a consequence
of transforming, the emotions themselves. Today acting as a counterweight to indifference
towards the other is a tendency towards self-defence, which transforms
into negative emotions like anger, resentment and contempt (suffice it to
think of the return of racism to Western democracies). If we are to break this
double-edged tendency towards indifference and violence, we need to regain
trust in the possibility to convert negative passions into positive ones, such as
compassion, empathy and solidarity.
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