Conscientious Conviction and Conscience

Criminal Law and Philosophy 10 (4):677-692 (2016)
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In this paper, I examine critically Kimberley Brownlee’s descriptive criteria for identifying when a person has a conscientious moral conviction. Then, I contrast her conception of conscience with other ideas of conscience, including a religious conception, a relativist conception, and those of Butler and Kant. The concepts examined here are central in her argument that, if civil disobedience is grounded in citizens’ conscience-based conscientious convictions, then it deserves legal and moral protection.

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10.1007/s11572-014-9354-x

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Differentiating Disobedients.Chong-Ming Lim - 2021 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 20 (2).
Reply to Critics.Kimberley Brownlee - 2016 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 10 (4):721-739.

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The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn.Jonathan Bennett - 1974 - Philosophy 49 (188):123-134.
Kant on wrongdoing, desert, and punishment.Thomas E. Hill - 1999 - Law and Philosophy 18 (4):407 - 441.

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