Born to Care: Conceptualizing Conscience to Foster Moral Education and Action - Creative Education

CE > Vol.7 No.1, January 2016

Creative Education

Volume 7, Issue 1 (January 2016)

ISSN Print: 2151-4755 ISSN Online: 2151-4771

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Born to Care: Conceptualizing Conscience to Foster Moral Education and Action ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ce.2016.71021 5,839 Downloads 6,990 Views Citations

Author(s)

Robert Wade Kenny

Affiliation(s)

Department of Communication Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada.

ABSTRACT

This essay is predicated on the belief that ethics educators should guide students toward a proper understanding of conscience. To that end, conscience and the qualities that are intertwined with it and make it possible are set forth.

KEYWORDS

Selfhood, Ontological, Moral Turbulence, Inter-Relational, Authentic Justice, Reflexivity, Mindfulness, Will, Situated and Habituated Conscience, Dead Conscience, Authentic Guilt, Authentic Shame, Reparation, Resoluteness, Creative Imagination

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Kenny, R. (2016) Born to Care: Conceptualizing Conscience to Foster Moral Education and Action. Creative Education, 7, 207-234. doi: 10.4236/ce.2016.71021.

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