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What does conscience mean?

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Noun
  1. The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour.
  2. (chiefly fiction) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.
  3. (obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
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Video has always articulated itself as the negative inverse of television, the conscience of television, as Avital Ronell once put it.
These facts he could deliver with a clear conscience and a straight face, and he did.
The call of conscience is ontologically possible only because the very basis of Dasein's Being is care.
It is customary for artists to perceive themselves as the conscience of society.
On the contrary, precisely because they are iniquitous the Church makes an urgent call for freedom of conscience and the duty to oppose.
For a prisoner of conscience to feel free behind bars was too much for the prison employee.

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