Moral Conscience through the Ages: Fifth Century BCE to the Present

Introduction 1. Sharing knowledge with oneself of a defect: five centuries from the Greek playwrights and Plato to St. Paul and first century pagans 2. Christian appropriation and Platonist developments, 3rd to 6th centuries CE 3. Early Christianity and freedom of religion, 200-400 CE 4. Doubled conscience and double-bind: a medieval insight and a 12th century misconstrual? 5. Penitence for bad conscience in pagans and Christians, 1st to 13th centuries 6. Protesters and Protestants: 'terrorisation' of conscience and two senses of freedom of conscience, 14th-16th centuries 7. Advice on particular moral dilemmas: casuistry, mid-16th to mid-17th centuries 8. Freedom of conscience and the individual in 17th century England 9. Four rehabilitations of conscience and connexion with sentiment: 18th century 10. Critics and champions of conscience and its continuing re-secularisation: 19th to 20th centuries 11. Freedom of conscience, religion and speech: different balances in different legislations 12. Retrospect: Nature and value of conscience Index