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Moral Conscience through the Ages
- Fifth Century BCE to the Present
Engelsk Hardback
Moral Conscience through the Ages
- Fifth Century BCE to the Present
Engelsk Hardback

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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 centurys political unrest and the critics and champions of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Sorabji traces a history of conscience over this long period and examines an impressive breadth of recurrent topics: the longing for different kinds of freedom of conscience, the proper limits of freedom itself, protests at consciences 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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780199685547
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0199685541
Udg. Dato:
27 nov 2014
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
161mm
Højde:
242mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
27 nov 2014
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