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Today I want to discuss the idea of judgments of responsibility for moral action as one manifestation of the idea of conscience and to show the influence of certain social environments of institutions on the development of the ability to make judgments of responsibility.
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Higgins, A. (1987). The Idea of Conscience in High School Students. Development of Judgments of Responsibility in Democratic Just Community Programs. In: Zecha, G., Weingartner, P. (eds) Conscience: An Interdisciplinary View. Theory and Decision Library, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3821-2_9
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