Sentence examples for claims of conscience from inspiring English sources

Should the state affirmatively recognize claims of conscience at all, whatever their source?

She resolves the conflict between the claims of conscience and those of happiness.

Notice that this analysis unfolds without reference to any special status for religious claims of conscience.

So that while the liberal state is pledged to refrain from burdening the claims of conscience, were it to surrender itself to them, it would, says Leiter, "cease being a state".

His celebrated book Medulla Theologiae Moralis, Facili ac Perspicua Methodo Resolvens Casus Conscientiae ex Variis Probatisque Authoribus Concinnata (1650; "The Heart of Moral Theology, an Easy and Perspicacious Method Resolving the Claims of Conscience Compiled from Various and Worthy Authors") was published in more than 200 editions before 1776.

There may be (and Leiter thinks there is) a principled argument for protecting liberty of conscience (so long as claims of conscience do not involve burden-shifting), but "there appears to be no equally principled argument that picks out distinctively religious conscience as an object of special moral and legal solicitude".

Organized religions have, in our system, greater rights to conscientious exemption than individuals, but there is no absolute immunity that keeps a religion's claim of conscience from being trumped by the government's right to "provide for the general welfare".

Charles Darwin considered that conscience evolved in humans to resolve conflicts between competing natural impulses-some about self-preservation but others about safety of a family or community; the claim of conscience to moral authority emerged from the "greater duration of impression of social instincts" in the struggle for survival.

What is more important for the project of Being and Time, then, is the claim that the call of conscience interrupts Dasein's everyday fascination with entities by summoning Dasein back to its own finitude and thereby to authenticity.

In addition to denouncing the clergy, and refusing to support it with their tithes, they also claimed liberty of conscience as an inalienable right and demanded the separation of church and state.

It is the call of conscience.