A system that actually holds people accountable to the broader conscience of society may be one of the best ways to keep conscienceless people in check".
(Using a broad definition of conscience as a form of moral self-awareness, Richard Sorabji claims that the notion of conscience can be found in the Fifth Century BCE playwrights as well as in the writings of Plato and Aristotle. See chapters one and two of his Moral Conscience Throughout the Ages).
The broad "coalition of conscience" with which Dr. King hoped to work was too broad, in the end, to satisfy those blacks who rejected the goal of "working into" a white society they considered malignant.
His rigorous artlessness, along with a keen historical conscience, permits broad latitude of subject matter within a straitening aesthetic.
The question of Strickland's guilt leads to a broader examination of cultural conscience and paranoia.
With the near-complete abdication of even minimal moral courage in the Republican Party, and the strategic confusion of the Democrats, all that Americans can turn to is the instinct for shared defiance, and a coalition of conscience, the broader the better, to counter the chaotic cruelty.
Moral objection, meanwhile, is not strictly limited to religious belief -- it can mean any personal moral commitment, which is a much broader protection than "traditional conscience clauses," says Jessica Arons, of the Center for American Progress.
Reacher is, of course, in a long line of American outcast heroes (how does the Coventry-born ex-TV-man author know so much about this?) who abjure emotional ties, head out into the wilderness and take upon their own broad shoulders the primitive moral conscience of the tribe.
The problem: Education is not upscale shopping malls (Taubman), chemicals (Ford), automobiles (Ford), computer operating systems (Gates), insurance and finance (Broad), or retail behemoths with no conscience (Walton).
But she said she saw it in broader terms, as "a violation of conscience, a fundamental assault on First Amendment rights".
