Conscience

In the realist film, On The Waterfront, Elia Kazan offers the audience an exploration of what it means to value individual conscience in the pursuit of justice. Set across from New York City, Kazan's tense expose of organised corruption in the 1950's follows the protagonist, Terry Malloy, as he struggles to choose between his loyalties in a world filled with dishonesty and trepidation. Although it may seem that many of the characters are bound to silence by fear and corruption, Kazan implies that

characters have sinned and betrayed their conscience and loved ones. The taxing journey of redemption is full of obstacles in which each texts’ protagonist deals with in their own unique but alike manner. Despite these unavoidable hardships, both Proctor and Malloy ultimately receive their desired redemption and gratifying outcomes. Thus, both texts show how life’s uncertainties, confusions and wrongdoings should be dealt with humanity and a clear conscience instead of fulfilling individual needs.

of Nietzsche’s “Genealogy of Morals”, contains rich insight, mainly about punishment. Punishment is suppose to be the way to awaken the feeling of guilt in someone that has done some wrong. However, punishment does not succeed in instilling bad conscience, or the sense of guilt, on the guilty person. When someone is punished, they do not receive a feeling of guilt. It can lead to two opposite things; either they are are able to become stronger and tougher and take the punishment, or they have their

definition of conscience when he called it ‘the faculty of reason making moral judgements’. From this, conscience is simply a rational faculty that enables us to understand right from wrong. The faculty works on the basis of knowledge, first a knowledge of moral principles enshrined in natural law, and ideally a knowledge of diving law as revealed in the Bible. However, Aquinas recognised that conscience is by no means an infallible voice. We can have a mistaken, erroneous or uninformed conscience, and it

adultery he has committed. During the first few chapters Arthur’s motivation surrounds the need to survive; he wants to survive the punishments bestowed on Hester without anyone knowing of his guilt. As time goes by with the truth still hidden, his conscience gets the better of him; a bloody scourge owned by dimmsdale surfaces from the book and the idea of Dimmsdale whipping himself as punishment arises. He constantly has his hand over his chest during the book; it is believed he has carved a letter

could have occurred resulting in a culture in which orders are no longer followed. Furthermore, Burger continues and explains that “in the name of ‘following orders’” people violate common ethical grounds. Fromm would likely refer back to humanistic conscience, meaning that despite following orders, one is aware of when an action causes destruction of life (Fromm 126). Fromm identifies why one should not listen to irrational authority on a human moral basis, whereas Kelman and Hamilton analyze it from

one reasonable and plausible answer to this question. The answer is: ultimately, wrongdoers will be punished for their acts of misconduct. Punishment can come in different forms, and in this case, a guilty conscience. Though it is not the conventional spanking or time-out, a guilty conscience is indeed a type of punishment that damages a person’s mental and emotional health. Amir, a character in The Kite Runner

Arthur Dimmesdale. In Macbeth the readers sees an obvious guilt in the main character, Macbeth. When one does wrong, the common reaction is to hide it and pretend as if nothing happened. Because of the human conscience it is difficult to completely forget about a wrongdoing. Through our conscience guilt is built up and eventually that guilt shatters enough

the behaviors of the characters in king Lear are Fool, Kent and Edgar have represented the awareness of human conscience. the Fool represented the role of conscience in Lear as an accountant of Lear's mistakes, also Fool plays the important role in King Lear while he appearances after Cordelia had moved with the prince of France and Kent's banished, Fool has a reaction in Lear's conscience in last of play throughout remembering him by his mistakes in a funny way

This is a critique of Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem by Eric Fromm, written in 1963. Fromm states in his article that disobedience is what originally set the human race on the path to thinking on their own, but obedience to authority in the end will be what kills us all. Overall his article has several compelling reasons to believe his theory, but it is also not completely believable for several reasons. There are several points that are debatable and his