 The English word “conscience” is derived from the Latin conscientia. Its Greek equivalent is syneidesis. Both terms connote a state or act of “sharing knowledge with oneself” (Sorabji 2014: 12). This knowledge is privileged and involves awareness of a personal moral defect. The notion that “I” can judge “myself” naturally suggests, as Sorabji puts it, a sort of “split personality”. That is, it suggests that I can at once be both the judge and the one being judged, particularly with respect to specific, past actions which ordinarily elicit remorse. This suggestion is rooted in the quite intuitive idea that human beings are reflexive animals: beings who are not only capable of turning their attention to objects in the outside world but can also “turn back on” (reflectere) or become an object to themselves. As C. S. Lewis put it in his study of the concept of concept of conscience in the Western tradition: