Conscience Conscience can have a powerful effect on ethical decision-making. However, it should never be the standard by which right and wrong is determined. There are three reasons why conscience should not predicate moral choices: Deviant conscious, irrational conscious effects, and experience. Deviant conscious is when the individual have no conscious barometer. Certain mental conditions can create people “without conscious.” They have abnormal psychologies that allow them, w...

Socrates Café Part A Christopher Philips in the Socrates Café has not succeeded in “returning philosophy to the people” because it has never been for the “people.” Although he was surprised at the depth of people’s insight and knowledge, especially that of children, he is blind to two points that he fails to address in his book. The first is that “philosophy” is not meant for the “people.” Secondly, he fails to grasp the religious dimension of philosophy, and how religion is imp...