le théâtre d’artaud se veut un ébranlement au sein de la stabilité, une néantisation de la positivité. c’est la pureté abstraite d’un vide chargé de sens inédits qui devrait s’imposer sur la scène, au lieu de la plénitude concrète d’une positivité aliénante qui crée pour l’homme des habitudes involontaires et irréfléchies de la pensée en empêchant le libre exercice de sa conscience au monde. co...

La Revue Pédagogique (1908-1939), fondée et dirigée par Luigi Credaro (1860-1939), fut la publication italienne consacrée à pédagogique plus importante de première moitié du XXe siècle. Elle reflétait les orientation théoriques politiques Credaro, professeur Pédagogie l’université « Sapienza » Rome 1902 1935, militant leader Parti Radical, élu député en 1895, puis Sénateur 1919, nommé ministre ...

The ultimate aim of this essay is to suggest that conscience is a very important part of human psychology and of our moral point of view, not something that can be dismissed as merely ‘a part of Christian theology’. The essay begins with discussions of what might be regarded as the two most influential functional models of conscience, the classical Christian account of conscience and the Freudi...

This Essay explores how physicians may handle conflicts or conscience facing Roman Catholic Health practitioners regarding "human life" issues, especially through conscience clauses. In five parts, the author examines "first, why conscientious objection is so important in our day; second, the moral grounding for freedom in the exercise of conscience; third, the components of the physician's con...

OBJECTIVES : 1) to highlight studies in the last eight years in which functional magnetic resonance imaging or other neuroimaging techniques have been employed in identifying brain activities as putative correlates of various TASKS proposed to represent essential MORAL PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS and 2) to consider how NEUROIMAGING STUDIES of CONSCIENCE FUNCTIONAL TASKS might be conducted which pro...

The literature on conscience in medicine has paid little attention to what is meant by the word 'conscience.' This article distinguishes between retrospective and prospective conscience, distinguishes synderesis from conscience, and argues against intuitionist views of conscience. Conscience is defined as having two interrelated parts: (1) a commitment to morality itself; to acting and choosing...

What role should the physician's conscience play in the practice of medicine? Much controversy has surrounded the question, yet little attention has been paid to the possibility that disputants are operating with contrasting definitions of the conscience. To illustrate this divergence, we contrast definitions stemming from Abrahamic religions and those stemming from secular moral tradition. Cle...