The Concept of Moral Conscience in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Ancient greek philosophy and modern psychiatry.

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

The Necessity of Considering Folk Ethics in Moral Philosophy

Contemporary ethics and moral philosophy need a kind of revision due to their negligence in human moral capacities, ordinary life, and humans’ expectations of ethics. The assumptions and presuppositions of ethics result in their current unsatisfactory status. In this paper, we first explore and criticize those presuppositions. Then, instead of introducing ideal presuppositions of ethics, we int...

Moral Hazard and Clear Conscience∗

The hidden-action moral hazard model is one of the cornerstones of contract theory and it has become a basic tool to analyze job contracts and other agency relationships. Close social ties often implied by such relationships make the moral hazard model a prime application of approaches where agents care about inequity, and intrinsically reciprocate each others’ kind and hostile intentions. We c...

Conscience – An Essay in Moral Psychology

The ultimate aim of this essay is to suggest that conscience is a very important part of human psychology and of our moral point of view, not something that can be dismissed as merely ‘a part of Christian theology’. The essay begins with discussions of what might be regarded as the two most influential functional models of conscience, the classical Christian account of conscience and the Freudi...