(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.
“At the same time, he is guided by his conscience to choose what is good or to avoid what is evil.”
“There is a considerable discordance in the critical literature about the Baron's pangs of conscience.”
“If your conscience won't allow you to fight for your country you can now apply for permission not to perform military or combatant duties.”
conscientization
(sociology, education) A social concept, grounded in Marxistcritical theory, that focuses on achieving an in-depth understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of perceived social and politicalcontradictions.
“In other episodes, characters are inhabited by alien consciousnesses, or surgically altered so that they resemble other, alien races.”
“Have we grown into organisms of thought, defined as much by our ways of thinking and our consciousnesses as by our physical bodies?”
“The reason he gives is that there is a plurality of consciousnesses, and there also exist plurally the qualities of desire, hatred, effort, pleasure, and pain.”