conscience

There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

It is possible that the study of literature affects the conscience, the morality, the sensitivity to some code of `` right '' and `` wrong ''.

This brings us to the fact that the realities we are dealing with lie not in the field of civil legislation, but in the realm of conscience and religion: They are moral judgments and matters of theological belief.

The justification in Christian conscience of the use of any mode of resistance also lays down its limitation -- in the distinction between the persons against whom pressure is primarily directed, those upon whom it may be permitted also to fall, and those who may never be directly repressed for the sake even of achieving some great good.

Gorton left England, he said, `` to enjoy libertie of conscience in respect to faith towards God, and for no other end ''.

The conscience is non-existent in the 2-year-old.

In contrast to this Stoic-patristic view, Utopia implies that the nature of man is such that to rely on individual conscience to supply the deficiencies of municipal law is to embark on the bottomless sea of human sinfulness in a sieve.

She attempted to reconcile with him by submitting to his authority as far as " God and my conscience " permitted, but she was eventually bullied into signing a document agreeing to all of Henry's demands.

Portrait of John Henry Newman, who used the conscience as evidence of the existence of God

This allowed artists to depict subjectively what they saw with their " tacit imperatives of taste and conscience ".

The Australian Democrats traditionally permitted parliamentary representatives to cast a conscience vote on any issue but, on this occasion, close numbers in the Senate placed greater pressure than usual on the dissenters.

Long before 1815 the Christian conscience was leading some to declare slavery wrong and to act accordingly.

He dismisses Nora's agonized choice made against her conscience for the sake of his health and her years of secret efforts to free them from the ensuing obligations and danger of loss of reputation, while preserving his peace of mind, as a mere mistake that she made owing to her foolishness, one of her most endearing feminine traits.

* Freedom of conscience ( or thought )

A related argument is from conscience ; John Henry Newman argued that the conscience supports the claim that objective moral truths exist because it drives people to act morally even when it is not in their own interest.

After reading Altenbergs ' first published collection ' Wie ich es sehe ' ( 1896 ) Hofmannsthal wrote: " Even though entirely unconcerned with things important, the book has such a good conscience that one can immediately see that it cannot possibly be a German book.

By definition, committing " venal " acts does not indicate " stealing " or " lying ", but rather suggests a consensual arrangement, perhaps without conscience or regard for consequences, but is not synonymous with stealing.

*" Socially conscious music forming the social conscience: Nicaraguan Musica Testimonial and the creation of a revolutionary moment " by T. M.

She quickly moved into cafe society, possibly easing her conscience by talking constantly of her desire to be in show business.

The Utopians brace conscience with legal sanctions.

The French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in A Very Easy Death ( Une mort très douce, 1964 ) reflects within her own conscience about her mother's attempts to develop such a moral sympathy and understanding of others.

In legislation, a conscience clause is a provision in a statute that excuses a health professional from complying with the law ( for example legalising surgical or pharmaceutical abortion ) if it is incompatible with religious or conscientious beliefs.

The American historian Charles Thomas wrote that Raeder's remarks about the executions in the Seekriegsleitung war diary seemed to be some sort of ironic comment in protest against the executions, which might have reflected a guilty conscience on the part of Raeder in enforcing a policy that he knew well to be illegal, and one that might lead him to being prosecuted for war crimes if Germany should lose the war.

* Wolfsbane in the Harry Potter series of Fantasy novels is a toxic plant that can be used as an ingredient in the Wolfsbane Potion, a potion werewolves use to maintain their rationality and conscience when transformed into a wolf.

) He said that his settlement was to be a haven for those " distressed of conscience ", and it soon attracted quite a collection of dissenters and otherwise-minded individuals.