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Conscience is often thought of as a gift not given equally to everyone. Observing unscrupulous behavior, we are prone to think or say, ‘That person has no conscience!’ In this book, the word conscience is understood somewhat differently. We regard it as the work of an automatic processor which regulates certain kinds of human activity and generates the subjective aspect of this regulation, moral sensibility. From this point of view, all people possess conscience in the same sense that they possess consciousness, thought, and speech.
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Lefebvre, V.A. (2001). Introductory Chapter. In: Algebra of Conscience. Theory and Decision Library, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0691-9_1
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