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Residing in the overlap, called conscience, is the primal, pre-interpretative, “personal experience”, as coined by William James (1929). It is through the experiencing of primal emotions such as fear, awe, reverence, hope, joy, and desire that the seed of conscience is found Here also is where the sacred resides. Green’s (1999) thesis proposes that the sacred is “a prerequisite for the conduct of moral education even to begin…. in a world where nothing is sacred, moral education is impossible” (p. 112). It is only the sacred that can engage the conscience.
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Holtam, B.W. (2012). Conscience. In: Let’s Call it What it is. Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching, vol 6. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-007-1_10
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