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‘Conscience, or the moral sense,’ Henry Home, Lord Kames wrote in 1758, ‘is none of our principles of action, but their guide and director. (…) It is the voice of God within us which commands our strictest obedience, just as much as when his will is declared by express revelation’ (Home, 1976, p. 45; Essay II, Ch. III). Thirty years later, Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid writes that conscience ‘grows to maturity from an imperceptible seed, planted by our Creator’ (1999, p. 640; Essay V, Ch. III).
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Schinkel, A. (2011). Conscience and Moral Education. In: Ruyter, D.J.d., Miedema, S. (eds) Moral Education and Development. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-716-5_10
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