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About Opinions of Many

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No one has ever encountered Public Opinion, and yet it has a beneficial or destructive effect on social contexts and constellations. For understanding “collective forgiveness”, its structure and dynamics are crucial: As an ideational court, it works relentlessly within us and across entire groups. Those who wish to understand forgiveness must address its structural undercurrents.

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Errichiello, O. (2021). About Opinions of Many. In: Collective Forgiveness. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63911-5_5

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