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Conscience and Bad Conscience.

This paper attempts to clarify the relationship between conscience and bad conscience in the Second Essay of the Genealogy of Morality (GM II). Conscience, which Nietzsche calls the "will's memory" (GM II, 1), is a faculty that enables agents to generate and sustain the motivation necessary to honor...

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Published in:European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 577 - 591
Main Author: Snelson, Avery
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2025
Subjects:
Conscience
Philosophy
Metaphysics
Punishment
Internalization (Social psychology)
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