Table of Contents

1 / Conscience: Foundational Aspects.- Conscience as Principled Responsibility: On the Philosophy of Stage Six.- Discussion.- The Phenomenon of Conscience: Subject-Orientation and Object-Orientation.- Discussion.- 2 / Conscience: Social and Educational Aspects.- Value-Neutrality, Conscience, and the Social Sciences.- Discussion.- Moral Competence and Education in Democratic Society.- Discussion.- The Idea of Conscience in High School Students. Development of Judgments of Responsibility in Democratic Just Community Programs.- Discussion.- 3 / Conscience: Special Topics.- Conscience in Conflict?.- Discussion.- Aquinas’ Theory of Conscience from a Logical Point of View.- Discussion.- The Ambivalent Relationship of Law and Freedom of Conscience: Intensification and Relaxation of Conscience Through the Legal System.- Discussion.- Psychoanalysis and Ethics.- Discussion.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

Reviews

`This book presents an excellent overview of theoretical and empirical issues in the investigation of conscience. ... a rich source of integrative modern thinking. I would like to recommend this book to students and scholars in philosophy, education, social and comparison of the important notions of human sciences, and to all those who are concerned about the responsibility of mankind in the face of political and ecological trends endangering this world of ours.'
Prof. Dr. Fritz Oser, University of Fribourg, Switzerland