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The Significance and Complexity of Conscience
The concept of conscience continues to play a central role in our ethical reasoning as well as in public and philosophical debate over medical...
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Why Conscience Matters: A Theory of Conscience and Its Relevance to Conscientious Objection in Medicine
Conscience is an idea that has significant currency in liberal democratic societies. Yet contemporary moral philosophical scholarship on conscience...
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Concept analysis of conscience-based nursing care: a hybrid approach of Schwartz-Barcott and Kim’s hybrid model
BackgroundThe nursing profession considers conscience as the foundation and cornerstone of clinical practice, which significantly influences...
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Attitudes of Polish physicians, nurses and pharmacists towards the ethical and legal aspects of the conscience clause
BackgroundWhile healthcare professionals’ right to invoke the conscience clause has been recognised as a fundamental human right, it continues to...
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Considerations of Conscience
The proper role of conscience in healthcare continues to be a topic of deep interest for bioethicists, healthcare professionals, and health policy...
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The Importance of Conscience as an Independent Protection
Freedom of conscience has received little attention as a distinct protection in Canadian case law to date. Where it has been judicially considered,...
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Cleansing Investor’s Conscience: The Effects of Incidental Guilt on Socially Responsible Investment Decisions
This paper explores the effects of incidental guilt on Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) decisions of retail investors. Do investors who feel...
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Reinterpreting FH in light of Kant’s claims about conscience
According to the standard reading of Kant’s ethics, application of the Formula of Humanity (FH) yields universal rules that are binding on all agents...
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Conscience, Renaissance Understanding of
Unlike the scholastic tradition, the Renaissance as a cultural phenomenon did not produce a distinctive cluster of theories of conscience....
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Conscience and Context
In The New Religious Intolerance Martha Nussbaum argues strongly against that intolerance, which she sees as a pressing problem in Europe in...
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Conscience and the Moral Insight
This chapter offers an introduction to the field of ethics and the central place of conscience within it. To explicate the idea of conscience, I draw...
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Reasons Examined in Good Conscience
For Nicolas Malebranche, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant, courage is the strength of a man’s mind searching for truth and willingly submitting to laws...
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Freedom of Conscience and Medical Assistance in Dying—Clinical Perspective
In Carter v. CanadaCanada (Attorney General), the Supreme CourtSupreme Court of Canada emphasized that a physician’s decision to participate in...
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Between Markets, Politics, and Ethics: On Vendor Conscience and Impersonal Markets
Business owners sometimes refuse to transact with certain customers on principle, given some normative (political, personal, moral, or religious)...
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Rights of Conscience
So far, this text has focused on normative ethics principles on which pharmacists generally agree. These concepts form the basis of a widely-held...
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Conscience, Its History and Being and Time: On Selfhood, Autonomy and an Experiment with Norms
One of the most puzzling elements in Being and Time’s notoriously difficult exploration of authenticity is its discussion of conscience. I will...
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Times of Insight: Conscience, Corporations, and the Common Good
This open access book traces the research and teaching contributions of Kenneth Goodpaster over more than 45 years of his career. The book shows the...
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Huckleberry Finn’s Conscience: Reckoning with the Evasion
Huck Finn’s struggles with his conscience, as depicted in Mark Twain’s famous novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (AHF) (1884), have been much...
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Conscience
Medieval thinkers inherited from Jerome (d. 420) a perhaps unintended distinction between conscience and synderesis, or the “spark of conscience”....