Talk:Conscience

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Contents 1 Catholic Church 2 Scientism 3 Merge? Nothign to do with conciousness! 4 Sinister

[edit] Catholic Church

I added a brief note on the internal forum,

and its pastoral use in the Roman Catholic Church. --Aloysius Patacsil 22:46, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

I removed the bit in the introduction about Catholicism. It was out of place.--71.68.118.41 04:10, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, the above statement was mine, wasn't signed in--Elizabeth of North Carolina 04:26, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scientism

"Modern day scientists in the fields of Ethology, Neuroscience and Evolutionary psychology seek to explain it as a function of the human brain that evolved to facilitate reciprocal altruism within societies. As such it could be instinctive (genetically determined) or learnt."

"Conscience can prompt different people in quite different directions, depending on their beliefs, suggesting that while the capacity for conscience is probably genetically determined, its subject matter is probably learnt, or imprinted, like language, as part of a culture. One person can feel a moral duty to go to war, another can feel a moral duty to avoid war under any circumstances."

This is a perfect example of scientism. Conscience can be instinctively (genetically determined) or learnt? That's interesting... Lapaz 04:37, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I stand by the above as a scientific statement and object to it being taken out. Are you suggesting that concience does not prompt people in different directions? What are you objecting to. If you don't think this is the scientific explanation, then what would you say is - or do you not think it has one? I'm reverting pending justification. --Lindosland 14:26, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge? Nothign to do with conciousness!

Do you mean merge the whole article? It is not about consciousness surely, and deserves to stand alone. --Lindosland 14:30, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Isn't it? can you please explain in exactly which extent consciousness differs from conscience - in the talk page of consciousness? Lapaz 17:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

See my talk there. Conscience pertains to the moral facility in human beings. Consciousness has to do with the awareness that "I exist." cogito ergo sum has nothing to do with remorse but it prooves consciousness. Perhaps you are thinking of conscientiousness??? I boldly removed flag because... I am very confident about this. MPS 04:42, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Good, me too! --Lindosland 01:15, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sinister

Re-"The angel often stands on the right, the good side, and the devil on the left, the bad side (left measured as bad luck in ..."

Minor edit. I replaced "bad side" with "sinister side", with the appropriate link, and replaced the commas after "right" and " left" with semicolons.

cckeiser 00:59, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Another minor edit. Corrected punctuation to: The angel often stands on the right, the good side; and the devil on the left, the sinister side (left measured as bad luck in superstition).

Unless I thoroughly misunderstand the sentence, the good side stands in apposition to the right; the sinister side to the left. In written English, Appositions are set off with commas, not semicolons. Semicolons arre used to punctuate tightly conjoined sentences, and also to separaate logically distinct groups of words themselves containing commas. The sentence in question consists of two sentences, the second beginning with and the devil. In the second sentence the verbal phrase often stands is left understood. This is sometimes called gapping. O'RyanW (☺ ₪) 19:06, 18 October 2006 (UTC)