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Are People Really Good at Heart?
“In spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
These words — set down as a belief, not a question — are among the last lines in the diary of Anne Frank, before the Frank family’s hiding place was betrayed and the Nazis came for them all. Did she still believe that in Bergen Belsen, the concentration camp where she died?
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young Philosopher (forthcoming), which is a woman's "confession" in the tradition of Augustine and Rousseau…
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