Conscience: Right or Wrong

For those who want to know

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Amsterdam, February 14, 2022– People need a conscience to function properly. Brain researchers are discovering more and more about the essential difference between knowing that something is wrong and feeling that something is wrong. And is there hope for those who have not developed a conscience?

Conscience actually means knowing together, which means that we know together what is right and morally wrong. We store that in our memory and that gives us something to hold on to. How we fill in good or bad depends on the culture in which we grow up. Culture is made by people who are closely related to each other.

In education, conscience is developed because experience shows that it can keep human tendencies in check. Conscience is metaphorically described as the voice of good in the human mind.

Conscience actually means knowing together, which means that we know together what is right and wrong (morality). We store that in our memory and that gives us something to hold on to. How we fill in good or bad depends on the culture in which we grow up. Culture is made by people who are closely related to each other.
In education, conscience is developed because experience shows that it can keep human tendencies in check. Conscience is metaphorically described as the voice of good in the human mind.

Man’s conscience is sometimes referred to as the inner awareness of good and evil, the moral capacity (the ‘inner voice’) to critically assess one’s own actions. If we, as decent human beings, act against our conscience, guilt, regret or remorse are evoked.

The conscience consists of two components: the cognitive ability to judge what is ‘good’ and ‘bad’, and having the right emotional reactions (feelings such as guilt, shame, regret, compassion or pity) towards one’s own moral failure.

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