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To see nature as beautiful, it must be considered in its organic productivity, that is, interpreted. Wanting to interpret nature is already loving it: interpretation is already a vision in love with nature that highlights its beauty.

— Luigi Pareyson

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Evil must be distinguished as possible and real: in God it is present as possible, and there man finds it and realises it in history.

The problem of evil has its roots in the dark depths of human nature and in the secret recesses of man's relationship with transcendence.

God is being, goodness, truth, or the positive in general, but insofar as it is willed and chosen, victory over possible nothingness.

Evil is not the absence of being, the deprivation of good, the lack of reality, but is reality, more precisely positive reality in its negativity.

The positive choice is itself a choice of goodness, and the negative choice is itself a choice of evil.

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