Moral Conscience Through the Ages: Fifth Century Bce to the Present

by Richard Sorabji

Book Overview

In Moral Conscience through the Ages, Richard Sorabji brings his erudition and philosophical acumen to bear on a fundamental question: what is conscience? Examining the ways we have conceived of that little voice in our heads--our self-directed judge--he teases out its most enduring elements, the aspects that have survived from the Greek playwrights in the fifth century BCE through St Paul, the Church Fathers, Catholics and Protestants, all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022652860X
• ISBN13: 9780226528601
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"