 Nevertheless, the role consciousness plays in Cudworth’s system is a similar awareness of one’s own thought that is distinct from the moral conscience. While consciousness does contain a reference to the subject of thought, for Cudworth, it does not do so immediately or explicitly. It takes a distinct act of reflection in order to provide the sort of self-reference necessary for making moral judgments about one’s own actions (Thiel 1991 92–24). (For more on Cudworth’s account of consciousness, see Thiel 1991 and Lähteenmäki 2010.)