In other words, the fear of President Obama is at least partly based on bad conscience, the knowledge on the part of white Americans that blacks have deep and legitimate grievances of the kind that would lead anyone to seek revenge given half a chance — a notion borne out in this Al Jazeera piece.
This form of inner awareness has been a topic of considerable debate, centuries after the issue arose with Locke's notion of self-consciousness on the heels of Descartes' sense of consciousness (conscience, co-knowledge).
After Luther, the linking of conscience with practical knowledge found in the writings of Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham gives way, under the influence of Joseph Butler and Immanuel Kant, to conceiving of conscience as a faculty.
Boranowsky's The Justified Coercion of Conscience, or the knowledge of what could and should force heretics to the true faith") 1675: Johannis Schefflers Alleiniges Him[m]elreich Das ist Abweisung Des schädlichen Wahns daß man wol Seelig werden könne wenn man gleich nicht Catholisch wird.
He said he sent a confidential letter to the acting federation presidents, Reinhard Rauball and Rainer Koch, offering to answer all questions "to the best of my knowledge and conscience," but that neither replied.
But the modern football fan in possession of a conscience and a reasonable knowledge of the horrific statistics about injuries suffered by players comes to resemble a nacho-scarfing version of St. Augustine, who, faced with his own lust, addresses God: "Lord, let me be pure . . . but not yet".
A Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll in May 2000 found that 19% said elected officials should pay the most attention to their own knowledge and conscience, about the same number as said they should pay the most attention to experts (20%), constituents who contact them (22%) — and polls (18%).
Gather all experts and scientists, leaders, farmers, media representatives, citizens, all sights and minds, all knowledge and conscience, and then contact us at this frequency, if we are still here. .
The physician's knowledge and conscience are dedicated to the fulfilment of this duty" [ 1]. 2) Introduction 4. "Medical progress is based on research which ultimately must rest in part on experimentation involving human subjects" [ 1]. 3) Sentence 3 of the preface: "Persons who are incapable of giving legal consent to clinical trials should be given special protection.
But even they recognize that truth telling requires earnest effort, a strong conscience and a desire for knowledge.
