Conscience and Conscientious Objections
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Conscience and Conscientious Objections
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9789085553915
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Paperback
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638
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English
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15.5 x 23.4 cm
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Preface - 10 Contents - 12 General Introd uction - 24 About this book - 24 Reality, consciousness, and language - 39 The theory of symbols - 50 Method - 64 Part 1 - 74 Ch.1: The symbol of conscience - 76 Ch. 2: Between symbol and doctrine: the conceptualization of conscience untill the early Middle Ages - 124 Ch.3: Between symbol and doctrine: differentiation and doctrinalization - the religious conscience before and after the Reformation - 172 Ch. 4: Between symbol and doctrine: the first wave of criticism - the seventeenth century - 204 Ch. 5:Between symbol and doctrine: Conscience grounded in Nature and Reason - 230 Ch. 6: Between symbol and doctrine: the second wave of criticism - the nineteenth century - 286 Ch. 7: Twentieth-century concepts of conscience - 316 Ch. 8: A fluid concept of conscience - 346 Part 2- 382 Transition to part 2 - 384 Ch. 9: Conscience and freedom of conscience - 390 Ch. 10: The problem of order - 400 Ch. 11: Between idealism and pragmatism - 438 Ch. 12: Solutions to the problem of order - 460 Part 3 - 482 Transition to part 3: Conscientious objection - 484 Ch. 13: Identifying conscientious objections - 490 Ch. 14: Conscie Ch. 15: Two case studies - 550 Ch. 16: Philosophical foundations of conscientious objection - 590 Concluding remarks - 599 References - 604 Samenvatting (Dutch summary) - 632

Anders Schinkel

Conscience and Conscientious Objections

In Western countries conscientious objection is usually accommodated in various ways, at least in certain areas (military conscription, medicine) and to some extent. It appears to be regarded as fundamentally different from other kinds of objection. But why? This study argues that conscientious objection cannot be understood as long as conscience is misunderstood. The author provides a new interpretation of the historical development of expressions of conscience and thought on the subject, and offers a new approach to conscientious objection rooted in the symbol-approach to conscience.
Author

Anders Schinkel

Dr. Anders Schinkel is a historian and philosopher. His publications span the philosophy of history, ethics, and sociology. One of the main foci of his present research lies in the field of animal ethics.
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