An edition of Moral Conscience through the Ages
(2014)
Moral conscience through the ages
fifth century BCE to the present
by Richard Sorabji
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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{u2014}our self-directed judge{u2014}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{u2019}s political unrest and the critics and champions of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.
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Conscience, Religious aspects, 08.38 ethics, PSYCHOLOGY, General, Consciousness, EthicsShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Moral Conscience through the Ages: Fifth Century BCE to the Present
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Moral conscience through the ages: fifth century BCE to the present
2014, The University of Chicago Press
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Moral Conscience Through the Ages: Fifth Century BCE to the Present
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Table of Contents
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Sharing Knowledge with Oneself of a Defect: Five Centuries from the Greek Playwrights and Plato to St. Paul and First-Century Pagans -- 11 -- 2
Christian Appropriation and Platonist Developments, Third to Sixth Centuries CE -- 37 -- 3
Early Christianity and Freedom of Religion, 200-400 CE -- 47 -- 4
Doubled Conscience and Dilemmas of Double Bind: A Medieval Insight and a Twelfth-Century Misconstrual? -- 59 -- 5
Penitence for Bad Conscience in Pagans and Christians, First to Thirteenth Centuries -- 73 -- 6
Protesters and Protestants: "Terrorization" of Conscience and Two Senses of "Freedom" of Conscience, Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries -- 97 -- 7
Advice on Particular Moral Dilemmas: Casuistry, Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Seventeenth Centuries -- 117 -- 8
Freedom of Conscience and the Individual: Seventeenth-Century England and Holland -- 127 -- 9
Four Rehabilitations of Conscience and Connection with Sentiment: Eighteenth Century -- 167 -- 10
Critics and Champions of Conscience and Its Continuing Resecularization: Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries -- 185 -- 11
Modern Issues about Conscientious Objection and Freedoms of Conscience, Religion, and Speech -- 201 -- 12
Retrospect: Nature and Value of Conscience-- 215.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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