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The dramatically urgent theme of conscience
Ivan Fuček
; Papinsko učilište Gregorijana u Rimu, Rim, Italija
Abstract
The author notes the currency of the fact of conscience which is discussed in a number of documents issued by the Second Vatican Council Teachers refer to conscience in their teaching as do students when they rise up in protest. Politicians and govemement administrations refer to it, as well as citizens when they challenge authority. Even the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussen appealed to conscience when he announced his "holy war".
The law is presently at a point of turning toward conscience, moving from a metaphysical approach to a personalistic one. Contemporary theological reflections refer to a new "personalization of conscience" (W. Panncnberg, P. Ricoeur); an "existential ethic" (K Rahner) and an "expanded conscience" insofar as it should bi seen and interpreted within the entire current problem of moral truth, which is not the same as traditionally logical or unethical truth: adaequatio mentis et rei, as emphasized and systamatically developed by K. Demmer.
Tracing the thought of K Demmer for whom conscience is actually a "privileged place" in the entire religious-etical life of man, the author asserts that this "place" should be first identified, differentiated, defined and studied. Since it is not static but characterized by the dynamics of the whole person, in training the conscience we train the entire person in all his aspects.
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54394
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Publication date:
22.4.1991.
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