name some famous people who followed their sense of right and wrong.
Brenda Hean, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Dag Hammarskjöld
Conscience
Dag Hammarskjöld to try and a
conscience is at the core or heart of every person UNANSWERABLE what is the definition of conscience? A cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system what are some of the views of this mentioned cognitive process? Although humanity has no generally accepted definition of conscience or universal agreement about its role in ethical decision-making, three approaches have addressed it what happens if this mentioned cognitive process is damaged? It violates the rights of one man, for the convenience of another and action pertaining to 'civil disobedience' takes place in which literature work is the mentioned cognitive process depicted? In the Mahabharata of Vyasa, Montaigne's essays how does the first literature work depict this sense of right and wrong? It contains two pivotal moments of "conscience". The first occurs when the warrior Arjuna being overcome with compassion against killing his opposing relatives in war, receives counsel from Krishna about his spiritual duty. The second, at the end of the saga, is when king Yudhishthira having alone survived the moral tests of life, is offered eternal bliss, only to refuse it because a faithful dog is prevented from coming with him by purported divine rules and laws. how does the second literature work depict this sense of right and wrong? In one of the most celebrated of his essays ("On experience") expressed the benefits of living with a clear conscience: "Our duty is to compose our character, not to compose books, to win not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live properly". who is that person who wrote those essays? The French author Montaigne
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Conscience [SEP] Notable examples of modern acts based on conscience
In a notable contemporary act of conscience, Christian bushwalker Brenda Hean protested against the flooding of Lake Pedder despite threats and that ultimately lead to her death. Another was the campaign by Ken Saro-Wiwa against oil extraction by multinational corporations in Nigeria that led to his execution. So too was the act by the Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel photographed holding his shopping bag in the path of tanks during the protests at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on 5 June 1989. The actions of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld to try and achieve peace in the Congo despite the (eventuating) threat to his life, were strongly motivated by conscience as is reflected in his diary, Vägmärken ("Markings").