{"id":16898,"date":"1955-07-01T13:20:00","date_gmt":"1955-07-01T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=16898"},"modified":"2024-11-27T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:26:15","slug":"the-significance-of-conscience-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=16898","title":{"rendered":"The Significance of Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Iredell Jenkins<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"153\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ethics.jpg\" alt=\"Ethics\" class=\"wp-image-15924\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ethics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>. . . the following seems the safest procedure. First, to give an account of the most general, and the most generally accepted, characteristics of those experienced occasions that we refer to as issuing from conscience. This will be brief, evocative rather than analytical in method, and selfconsciously undoctrinaire. Second, to consider what inferences can be drawn from this behavior of conscience concerning the sort of mechanism conscience is, the ways in which it operates, and the function that it fills. . . .  In short, in this inquiry . . .  I shall reason from what conscience does to what it is; from the effects it produces to the structure it has and the purposes it serves; from its impact on human experience to its role in the human economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Jenkins I. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1086\/291015?journalCode=et\">The Significance of Conscience.<\/a> Ethics. 1955 Jul;65(4):261-270.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iredell Jenkins Extract. . . the following seems the safest procedure. First, to give an account of the most general, and the most generally accepted, characteristics of those experienced occasions that we refer to as issuing from conscience. This will be brief, evocative rather than analytical in method, and selfconsciously undoctrinaire. 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