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Moral Conscience Through the Ages - Fifth Century Bce to the Present (Paperback)
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Moral Conscience Through the Ages - Fifth Century Bce to the Present (Paperback)
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In Moral Conscience through the Ages, Richard Sorabji brings his
erudition and philosophical acumen to bear on a fundamental
question: what is conscience? Examining the ways we have conceived
of that little voice in our heads--our self-directed judge--he
teases out its most enduring elements, the aspects that have
survived from the Greek playwrights in the fifth century BCE
through St Paul, the Church Fathers, Catholics and Protestants, all
the way to the 17th century's political unrest and the critics and
champions of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Sorabji
examines an impressive breadth of topics: the longing for different
kinds of freedom of conscience, the proper limits of freedom
itself, protests at conscience's being 'terrorized, ' dilemmas of
conscience, the value of conscience to human beings, its
secularization, its reliability, and ways to improve it. These
historical issues are alive today, with fresh concerns about topics
such as conscientious objection, the force of conscience, or the
balance between freedoms of conscience, religion, and speech. The
result is a stunningly comprehensive look at a central component of
our moral understanding.
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