Conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system.
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11 Facts About Conscience
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Conscience stands in contrast to elicited emotion or thought due to associations based on immediate sensory perceptions and reflexive responses, as in sympathetic central nervous system responses.
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Conscience, as is detailed in sections below, is a concept in national and international law, is increasingly conceived of as applying to the world as a whole, has motivated numerous notable acts for the public good and been the subject of many prominent examples of literature, music and film.
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Conscience's conscience is man's most secret core, and his sanctuary.
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Conscience subsequently reinforced this idea through the lens of the gene-centered view of evolution, since the unit of natural selection is neither an individual organism nor a group, but rather the "selfish" gene, and these genes could ensure their own "selfish" survival by, inter alia, pushing individuals to act altruistically towards its kin.
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Conscience is accompanied in each case by an internal awareness of 'inner light' and approbation or 'inner darkness' and condemnation as well as a resulting conviction of right or duty either followed or declined.
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Conscience tended to be more authoritative in questions of moral judgment, thought Butler, because it was more likely to be clear and certain.
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Conscience played a major role in the actions by anaesthetist Stephen Bolsin to whistleblow on incompetent paediatric cardiac surgeons at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.
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Conscience was a major factor in US Public Health Service officer Peter Buxtun revealing the Tuskegee syphilis experiment to the public.
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Conscience was a major factor in the refusal of Aung San Suu Kyi to leave Burma despite house arrest and persecution by the military dictatorship in that country.
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Conscience was a factor in Peter Galbraith's criticism of fraud in the 2009 Afghanistan election despite it costing him his United Nations job.
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