What is Conscience?
[[Image:Chifflart - Das_Gewissen - 1877.jpeg|thumb|300px|François Chifflart (1825-1901), '''La Conscience''' (after Victor Hugo)]] '''Conscience''' is something that tells [[people]] if what they are doing is [[morality|right or wrong]]. Having it can make people [[sadness|sad]] about what they have done. It is the sense of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good. ==Origin== Middle English (also in the sense ‘inner thoughts or knowledge’): via Old French from Latin conscientia, from conscient- ‘being privy to’, from the verb conscire, from con- ‘with’ + scire ‘know’. ==Related pages== * [[Conscientious objector]] * [[Consciousness]] * [[Guilt (emotion)|Guilt]] * [[Ethics]] * [[Freedom]] * [[John Locke]] * [[Morality]] * [[Reason]] == Other websites == {{Commonscat|Conscience}} * [http://www.parentingforeveryone.com/book2part2ch12'' A chapter on Conscience] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516020813/http://www.parentingforeveryone.com/book2part2ch12 |date=2007-05-16 }} From Parenting For Everyone, by S.Soloveychik, 1986 {{stub}} [[Category:Ethics]] [[Category:Human skills]] [[Category:Political philosophy]] [[Category:Personality]] [[Category:Thought]]