These conscience-based accounts are exceedingly popular among many people, academics and non-academics alike, perhaps owing to its intuitive appeal: it certainly feels like we don’t do certain things ...

Is moral obligation a serious matter that cannot be seriously taken without the acceptance of something beyond the choice and ...

He puts the word “conscience” in quote-marks: The subject then decides, on the basis of his experiences, what he considers tenable in matters of religion, and the subjective “conscience” becomes the ...

"A person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behavior" -- the dictionary definition of "conscience." Whenever I make the common-sense argument that people need to ...

A demonstrator holds a "Black Lives Matter" flag and another sign outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis April 6, 2021, the seventh day of the trial of former police officer ...

Each summer I finalize my course syllabus for the fall. That syllabus serves to outline the objectives of the course, to distribute course materials reasonably so as to get my students somewhere close ...

The charge that politicians lack conscience is therefore less a verdict than a warning. It signals a public hunger for ...

A perceived wrongdoing by one member is interpreted as an offense against the entire moral community. Law in such societies is predominantly repressive. Organic solidarity, by contrast, characterizes ...

“We may now state the minimum conception: Morality is, at the very least, the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason…while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual affected by one’s ...