Please , see these articles
Article General principles of the right for the freedom of thought, ...
Chapter Do we have a conscience? could we have a conscience?
Conscience and religion are independent of each other. Being religious does not guarantee a clean conscience.
Even if it is difficult to believe, when you have no own experience, though it is proven by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Raymand Moody and others in the near death research, that our perceptible soul, or a part of it, can perceive and experience things and actions outside of our reach, in this and other dimensions. Conscience is transcending. This has always been reported by many traditional experts as i reported in my last book as well. These experts as medicine men, healers, shamans, spiritual leader etc. have always been linking worlds and dimensions in the most rational and irrational, means in a holistic way.
Another link of both is the reincarnation research of Ian Stevenson.
So conscience is linked as a kind of web systematically with many kinds of realities inside and outside. And the spiritualities, the basic of most religions which i consider an institutionalised form of spirituality with all its benefits and human related shortcomings, is intertwinned in the same net maybe?
A good question, worthwhile sharing!
Dear S.s. Das,
Conscience - a person's ability to independently formulate moral responsibilities and to implement the moral self-control, to demand from themselves and their implementation to assess its acts committed; one expression of the moral consciousness of the person.
There conscience within our souls. This is not a concept - it is quite a well-known object. It is, of course, the spiritual, but we can interact with it. It is, indeed, often expressed as the inner voice that others do not hear, but sometimes the voice of conscience is reflected in our face.
Regards, Shafagat
Conscience was approached by Aristotle in his Ethics which influenced the Catolic Church.
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Dear all,
I'd say that conscience is the internal facility for self-control and self-restraint. Its an internalization of social and personal values--consisting of developed and cultivate habits and patterns of evaluation and self-evaluation.
Someone looking over your shoulder constantly is no adequate substitute.
H.G. Callaway
Conscience is one of the aspects of consciousness and subconsciousness which are high advanced functions of the cerebral cortex in the human brain. For the literal explanation am in agreement with Ms Shafagat above.
The connection with religion depends on whether one believe in religion or not, for there is a significant percentage of the population which doesnt believe in religion but they do have conscience, because its a human function.
For the majority who believe in religion there is no need to explain because the two are definately interrelated in many aspects.
Please , see these articles
Article General principles of the right for the freedom of thought, ...
Chapter Do we have a conscience? could we have a conscience?
Concience can be defined as an inner feeling or voice that acts as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behaviour., while religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods or a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance. This definitions show that these two terminologies are different, but only to a certain degree. Our conscience can be trained to always steer us to making the right choices this could be aided by our religious convictions that help us to define right and wrong.
Conscience is the result of brain function and human behavior router or mutual effects of the individual to help others without charge helps. Or, is the human ability to distinguish whether an action is right or wrong, which is leading to a sense of resources when they contradict the things that made by individual with moral values and religious.
Dear Das:
I see consciousness as a psychological phenomenon, which is a subject of scientific inquiry. It also has philosophical ramifications. Human consciousness is related to the idea of "being-for-itself", which is the consciousness of our own consciousness. I would say that all living beings have at least a rudimentary kind of consciousness, but that not all of them are conscious of their own consciousness.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ~ C.G. Jung
The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief. ~ Max Planck
The meaning of conscience in the argument is knowledge and not just a feeling; but it is intuitive knowledge rather than rational or analytical knowledge, and it is first of all the knowledge that I must always do right and never wrong, the knowledge of my absolute obligation to goodness, all goodness: justice and charity and virtue and holiness; only in the second place is it the knowledge of which things are right and which things are wrong. This second-place knowledge is a knowledge of moral facts, while the first-place knowledge is a knowledge of my personal moral obligation, a knowledge of the moral law itself and its binding authority over my life. That knowledge forms the basis for the argument from conscience.
Conscience is the essence of the self. It is through intelligent energy that awareness illuminates consciousness to manifest in the mind. The mind, under normal circumstances, is consumed in its own body- ego-consciousness, until spontaneous awareness creates that elusive inner perception, making mind aware of its own true reality.
This makes the mind conscious of its doings; it becomes aware of the witnessing Self. Therefore, we are not just the body and mind, but also the awareness, which foresees the emergence of conscience to direct the mind through all its experiences. It is preeminent in everything the mind indulges in; making the mind aware and conscious of its thoughts and actions.
Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself. ~ Robert Ludlum
Conscience is a real demonstration of spiritual existence of each one. There is a continuos dialogue between rational and spiritual parts of a human being. If we consider only the material side of conscience we have the brain functioning organized by educational, emotional, and training experiences. On the other side, the spiritual part of conscience is depending on the development of material side but imply a self decisional process based on freewill. We know what´s the Good, we understand what´s the Good, we feel what´s the Good, but we have the last decision to choose it, or not. That´s why religions and phylosophic views continue to try to help, and sometimes control, individual and colective freewill. Human beeings know they are going to die, materially.
Conscience is the internal sound in your mind that make your feel comfortable if you did good deeds and make you feel very bad if you behaved in bad way or did something wrong and opposite to your principles. Conscience is also your behavior with the others, it has no relation or contact to religion it is just come from your thoughts, your views to the goodness and badness. The most important part in the human is the conscience, it controls the whole life.
True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time? ~ W. Van Tilburg Clark
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.~ W. S. Maugham
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