Newble, 33, was careful not to be critical of James, but the publicity touched off another round of lamentation over the modern athlete's contractual servitude to corporations and how it typically impedes the development of a conscience.
Thinking predicated on the development of world conscience is common to members of the Global Ecovillage Network such as the Findhorn Foundation, international conservation organisations like Fauna and Flora International, as well as performers of world music such as Alan Stivell.
We in the West have a narrative that involves the development of individual reason and conscience during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and then the subsequent flourishing of capitalism.
Noam Chomsky has argued that forces opposing the development of such a world conscience include free market ideologies that valorise corporate greed in nominal electoral democracies where advertising, shopping malls and indebtedness, shape citizens into apathetic consumers in relation to information and access necessary for democratic participation.
Scotus's close linking of conscience and the development of the virtues allows him to combine the two sources.
the right to exist and live a life corresponding to human dignity, the right to personal freedom and the freedom to choose one's own direction in life, the right to personal development, the right to the freedom of conscience.
In terms of human rights and political development, the promotion of comprehensive freedom of conscience can help societies move away from identity-based politics, foster a broader notion of citizenship, and encourage practices--such as civil debate and tolerance for plurality of opinion--that undergird any healthy democracy.
Stage 6 was removed as a general measure of development as this stage reflects decisions of conscience, based on self-chosen ethical principles appealing to universality and associated with moral leaders such as Gandhi and the Dali Lama.
Anxiety, it seems, can serve an important social purpose; for example, it plays a key role in the development of some children's consciences.
