Critic, novelist, poet, dramatist, artist, commentator – and, above all, storyteller – Berger was described by Susan Sontag as peerless in his ability to make "attentiveness to the sensual world" meet "imperatives of conscience".
It is now imperative that people of conscience come together in a process that I refer to as DEUCE, short for dialogue, education, understanding, commitment, and engagement.
But the Catholic reconciliation of oppositions between reason and faith, between change and tradition, between freedom of conscience and magisterial imperative, moved inexorably forward, driven mainly by the common sense and moral independence of the Catholic people.
Boards represent that, though I don't know that they're necessarily driving it". But Puzo acknowledged that "a board comes into its own" only when it subjects itself to "an examination of conscience". This is especially imperative, in her view, when a founder or galvanizing artistic figure steps down.
Man perceives and acknowledges the imperatives of divine law through the mediation of conscience.
To document the unfolding human tragedy, and the human cost of the bloody war was beyond a matter of conscience; it was an urgent imperative.
To document the unfolding human tragedy, and the human cost of the bloody war was beyond a matter of conscience; it was an urgent imperative. .
"[The encyclical] will convey to the world that protecting our environment is an urgent moral imperative and a sacred duty for all people of faith and people of conscience," Ban said.
Many commentators argue that there is a flaw in Bayle's plea for tolerance: the so-called "conscientious persecutor aporia". In order to show the wrongness of persecutions, Bayle appeals to the primary ethical imperative of obeying the "dictates" of one's conscience.
Feeling pangs of conscience?
