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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.
On the contrary, precisely because they are iniquitous the Church makes an urgent call for freedom of conscience and the duty to oppose.
The Irish Constitution guarantees freedom of conscience and the free profession and practice of religion.
The call of conscience is ontologically possible only because the very basis of Dasein's Being is care.
I'm talking about people with manipulative skills, person skills, and a conscience getting in there and pressing the flesh.
It is customary for artists to perceive themselves as the conscience of society.

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