An Encyclopedia of Conscience

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    'A' is for ... Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
    (IU Conscience Project, 2024) Gramelspacher, Mary Lou; Gaffney, Margaret M.; Galvin, Matthew R.
    In her life Arendt retained a deep, non-dogmatic, personal faith, but she also believed, Verkamp informs us further, that “the injection of religious passion into political life would likely pervert both religion and politics into detestable exercises in ideological fanaticism.” In emerging adulthood, she attended lectures in Christian theology and was introduced to the work of Søren Kierkegaard. Her pursuit of knowledge may have begun with theology but soon led her into philosophy as well.
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    'S' is for ... John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
    (IU Conscience Project, 2024) DiMicco, Joseph A.
    In Steinbeck’s EAST OF EDEN one character is dark: Cathy. Referring to her, Steinbeck writes: “There are monsters born.” No conscience-- but Cathy has perspectives-- on others’ weaknesses and inadequacies and exploits them in self-interest. One of the criticisms made of Steinbeck’s novel is that Cathy is unbelievable-she can’t be real. Steinbeck’s counterargument would be if you believe in saints, you must also believe in the possibility of a Cathy.
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    'A' is for ... Jane Austen (1775-1817)
    (IU Conscience Project, 2023-02) Gaffney, Margaret M.; Galvin, Matthew M.
    Jane Austen (JA), English novelist and astute observer of human conduct and character, lived a quiet and all-too-brief life, producing merely six completed novels, several compositions of ‘Juvenilia,’ many brief historical sketches, and thousands of letters, mostly to her sister who destroyed 2/3 of them before her own death. Nevertheless, the products of JA’s pen remain respected, even beloved, more than 200 years after her death. ... JA is often referred to as a ‘moral’ writer, a writer concerned with how a person achieves or retrieves goodness in life, a focus some consider the very essence of good literature. ... JA’s expertise in character study and moral dilemma resolution shows us how to apply, to ourselves, the same expertise in understanding our personal conscience.
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    'M' is for ... Murasaki
    (IU Conscience Project, 2022) Gramelspacher, Mary Lou; Gaffney, Margaret M.; Galvin, Matthew R.
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    ‘R’ is for … Raskolnikov
    (IU Conscience Project, 2022) Kahn, Samuel
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    'P' is for ... Rosamunde Pilcher (1924-2019)
    (IU Conscience Project, 2022) Gaffney, Margaret M.; DiMicco, Susan
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    'T' is for ... Tecumseh (1768-1813)
    (IU Conscience Project, 2022) Stillwell, Barbara M.
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    'N' is for ... Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
    (IU Conscience Project, 2021) Galvin, Matthew R.
    Given the ‘take-no-prisoners’ attitude and, relatedly, the bold, if chilling, clarity of Nietzsche’s vision, a consideration of his works prompts a straightforward interrogatory into how there might be ways to achieve flourishing in relevant psychological realms, especially valuation and volition, without--or in spite of-- the process of moralization. Moreover, even among developmental considerations that we might agree should remain within the scope of moralization, a more nuanced rendering of the valuational process may be owed to Nietzsche in emphasizing the final term in the triune: value-keeping-value seeking-value making.
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    'D' is for ... Diotima of Mantinea
    (IU Conscience Project, 2021) Gramelspacher, Mary Lou; Gaffney, Margaret M.; Galvin, Matthew R.
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    ‘K’ is for … Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
    (IU Conscience Project, 2021) Galvin, Matthew R.
    Kierkegaard's leap of faith and acceptance of the Christian call to love must be regarded as the matter of conscience ultimately most crucial to him. Subsequently, we find conscience in his decisions and renewed vows to devote himself to writing and publishing and again in his activist undertaking of a sustained polemic that he would consolidate in his work, ATTACK UPON “CHRISTENDOM”. The attack earned him personal ridicule and estrangement from the established Danish Church.