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CONNECT WITH THE AUTHOR • OFFICIAL SITES • • Related Links. “A hymn to the mystery of disobedienceWhat makes you eager to push this book into the hands of the next person you meet are the small, still moments, epics captured in miniature. Essential.” — The New York Times “Evocative.A valentine to the human spirit.” — The Wall Street Journal “On stage and in the pulpit, moral dilemmas of this kind tend to have a black-and-white clarity.

Working from life, Mr. Press brings out the grays.Rich in personal, circumstantial details that analytical thinkers in search of clear principles may overlook.” — The Economist “Press examines his subjects carefully.In some ways Beautiful Souls is a thoughtful gesture of support. That might sound like a small thing, but it's not.

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The conflicts can be benign. Thoreau plants his beans, refuses to pay the tax collector, spends a night in jail, writes a masterpiece. But moral convictions can lead to disengagement from civic life, or sometimes even wars. A conscience can be used to justify anything, even heinous crimes. It can lead a person to protect his purity at the cost of harming other people. As Press acknowledges, what you might call fanaticism I might call justice. One Israeli solder refuses to serve in the occupied territories because of injustices perpetrated against Palestinians; another refuses to remove Jewish settlers because they are Jewish.

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Both men appeal to their consciences. “Measured by depth and sincerity of conviction, perhaps there wasn’t much difference between left- and right-wing refuseniks in the Israeli Army,” Press writes. “Measured by moral content, there clearly was.” To distinguish between them, Press cites “the standard Adam Smith might have proposed”: the “stretch” of their “moral imaginations,” which he describes as the ability to sympathize with those who suffer.