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Conscience: An Interdisciplinary View

Salzburg Colloquium on Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities

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  1. Gerhard Zecha

    1. Institute for Theoretical Science, Salzburg International Research Centre, Austria

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  2. Paul Weingartner

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Austria

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library A: (TDLA, volume 1)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Conscience: Foundational Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    3. Discussion

      • Ann Higgins, Lawrence Kohlberg, Georg Lind, Heinrich Scholler, Hans Strotzka, Günter Virt et al.
      Pages 16-25

    5. Discussion

      • Josef Fuchs, Ann Higgins, Georg Lind, Hans Strotzka, Paul Weingartner, Thomas E. Wren et al.
      Pages 47-56

  3. Conscience: Social and Educational Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    3. Discussion

      • Ann Higgins, Lawrence Kohlberg, Georg Lind, Heinrich Scholler, Hans Strotzka, Günter Virt et al.
      Pages 78-89

    5. Discussion

      • Josef Fuchs, Ann Higgins, Lawrence Kohlberg, Georg Lind, Heinrich Scholler, Hans Strotzka et al.
      Pages 111-122

    7. Discussion

      • Josef Fuchs, Ann Higgins, Lawrence Kohlberg, Georg Lind, Heinrich Scholler, Hans Strotzka et al.
      Pages 150-162

  4. Conscience: Special Topics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Conscience in Conflict?

      • Günter Virt
      Pages 165-191

    3. Discussion

      • Josef Fuchs, Lawrence Kohlberg, Georg Lind, Heinrich Scholler, Günter Virt, Paul Weingartner et al.
      Pages 191-200

    5. Discussion

      • Josef Fuchs, Ann Higgins, Georg Lind, Heinrich Scholler, Werner Stark, Hans Strotzka et al.
      Pages 217-230

    7. Discussion

      • Josef Fuchs, Ann Higgins, Lawrence Kohlberg, Georg Lind, Heinrich Scholler, Hans Strotzka et al.
      Pages 252-261
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About this book

Value change and uncertainty about the validity of traditional moral convictions are frequently observed when scientific re­ search confronts us with new moral problems or challenges the moral responsibility of the scientist. Which ethics is to be relied on? Which principles are the most reasonable, the most humane ones? For want of an appropriate answer, moral authorities of­ ten point to conscience, the individual conscience, which seems to be man's unique, directly accessible and final source of moral contention. But what is meant by 'conscience'? There is hardly a notion as widely used and at the same time as controversial as that of conscience. In the history of ethics we can distinguish several trends in the interpretation of the concept and function of conscience. The Greeks used the word O"uvEt81lm~ to denote a kind of 'accompa­ nying knowledge' that mostly referred to negatively experienced behavior. In Latin, the expression conscientia meant a knowing­ together pointing beyond the individual consciousness to the common knowledge of other people. In the Bible, especially in the New Testament, O"uvEt81l0"t~ is used for the guiding con­ sciousness of the morality of one's own action.
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`This book presents an excellent overview of theoretical and empirical issues in the investigation of conscience. ... a rich source of integrative modern thinking. I would like to recommend this book to students and scholars in philosophy, education, social and comparison of the important notions of human sciences, and to all those who are concerned about the responsibility of mankind in the face of political and ecological trends endangering this world of ours.'
Prof. Dr. Fritz Oser, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Theoretical Science, Salzburg International Research Centre, Austria

    Gerhard Zecha

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Austria

    Paul Weingartner

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Conscience: An Interdisciplinary View

  • Book Subtitle: Salzburg Colloquium on Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities

  • Editors: Gerhard Zecha, Paul Weingartner

  • Series Title: Theory and Decision Library A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3821-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2452-6Published: 31 March 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8200-6Published: 03 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3821-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-3384

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-2119

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 304

  • Topics: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ethics, Philosophy of Law

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