{"id":2339,"date":"2013-03-19T06:19:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T06:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2023-01-23T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T00:06:24","slug":"conscience-and-conviction-the-case-for-civil-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2339","title":{"rendered":"(Book Review) Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alon Harel<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"152\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/book-brownlee-conscience.jpg\" alt=\"(Book Review) Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience\" class=\"wp-image-11569\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-background-color has-background\">Kimberley Brownlee. Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience. Oxford University Press, 2012, 260pp. ISBN 9780199592944<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>In her thorough, careful and insightful discussion, Kimberley Brownlee explores the nature of conscience and conscientious convictions and draws important conclusions concerning the justifiable protection of acts of civil disobedience. The first part of her book discusses morality while the second part discusses law. In addition to its rigorous analysis, the book contains lively discussions of real-life examples and hypotheticals designed to illustrate and address all possible objections and establish the centrality of the protection of conscientious convictions and conscience in a liberal society.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Harel A.  <a href=\"https:\/\/ndpr.nd.edu\/news\/conscience-and-conviction-the-case-for-civil-disobedience\/\">Book Review: Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience. <\/a> Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2013-02-29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alon Harel Kimberley Brownlee. Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience. Oxford University Press, 2012, 260pp. ISBN 9780199592944 ExtractIn her thorough, careful and insightful discussion, Kimberley Brownlee explores the nature of conscience and conscientious convictions and draws important conclusions concerning the justifiable protection of acts of civil disobedience. The first part of her book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Book Review) Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,554],"tags":[621,557,558],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-ethics","tag-alon-harel","tag-civil-disobedience","tag-kimberley-brownlee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>(Book Review) Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" 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