text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"Conscience is practical reason holding the human being's duty before him for his acquittal or condemnation in every case that comes under a law.
(MS 6:400)",2010-02-04 22:21:31 UTC,"""Conscience is practical reason holding the human being's duty before him for his acquittal or condemnation in every case that comes under a law.""",2010-02-04 22:21:31 UTC,"","",,"","Note, Wood says Kant's court metaphor is not ""as metaphorical as it might seem"" (184).","Reading Allen W. Wood's Kantian Ethics. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2007. p. 184.",17698,6675
"Every concept of duty involves objective constraint through a law (a moral imperative limiting our freedom) and belongs to a practical understanding, which provides a rule. But the internal imputation of a deed, as a case falling under a law (in meritum aut demeritum), belongs to the faculty of judgment (iudicium), which, as the subjective principle of imputing an action, judges with rightful force whether the action as a deed (an action coming under a law) has occurred or not. Upon it follows the conclusion of reason (the verdict), that is, the connecting of the rightful result with the action (condemnation or aquittal). All of this takes place before a judicial proceeding (forum). — Consciousness of an inner court in the human being (""before which his thoughts accuse or excuse one another"") is conscience.
(MS 6:437-8)",2010-02-04 22:24:38 UTC,"""Consciousness of an inner court in the human being ('before which his thoughts accuse or excuse one another') is conscience.""",2010-02-04 22:24:13 UTC,"","",,Court,"","Reading Allen Wood's Kantian Ethics. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2007. p. 184.",17699,6675