Conscience

Conscience is the human sense of what is right and wrong.^[1]

• In her empirical study of the development of conscience, Barbara Stilwell of the Indiana University School of Medicine describes the child’s quest for parental approval as the foundation for the emergence of conscience. She found that a child’s development of a sense of morality, ability to regulate impulses and emotions, and capacity for empathy with others is based on the child’s attachment to its parents, especially in the early years to its mother. [1]

At the time of the Founding of America, Conscience was an important driving ideal behind religious freedom.^[2]

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