On Feb. 12, film director Steven Spielberg publicly announced his withdrawal as artistic director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic games on the grounds of a clash of "conscience".
It is in this fraternal clash of consciences that God's word becomes clearer in the mind of men.
Or "Inherent Vice," with its sprawling mélange of clashing consciences and altered states?
When it comes to an apparent clash between individual conscience and the system, on this scale, it is the system that must give way.
For patients who want to access, for example, therapeutic abortions in some religious hospitals, the clash of individual and institutional conscience is far more than an abstract argument in moral theory; it is an immediate harm occasioned on them by the favouring of a collective, institutional conscience over their medical needs, and even over the medical determinations of their doctor.
The surest way to destroy predictability is to tell citizens and judges alike to decide what to do when interests clash by looking into their consciences.
His appeal to the easily awed conscience of the big-budget filmmaker consists of two clashing strains: Nash is a Nobel laureate, and he is also a victim of paranoid schizophrenia.
He won't elaborate, but one infers that there was a clash between the values of the actor whose social conscience has in the past led him to take Shakespeare into prisons, and the different priorities of the management.
"Should I stay or should I go now?" That question, posed by the eminent political philosophers known as the Clash, is one that confronts any Republican with a glimmer of conscience.
They argue that article 222 clashes with Morocco's international obligations and its constitution, which guarantee freedom of conscience.
And in their violent juxtapositions and clashes of images they contained the germ of Reggio's film-making career: a social conscience crossed with the leanings of a poet and a coruscating Jesuitical rigour.
