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The author unpacks a subtle distinction between conscience as synderesis or conscientia (a "knowing with")--a notion bequeathed by the Stoics and developed during the Middle Ages--and anamnesis ("recollection", or "primal memory"), which is more akin to the notion contained in the writings of Paul and Augustine.
Pope Benedict XVI: The Conscience of Our Age by Gallagher, Daniel B. / Catholic Insight
Wordsworth therefore is one of the most pertinent of poets on the subject of poetry as conscience, taken in the sense which gives it most meaning, derived as it is from the Latin conscientia meaning 'knowledge'.
Poetry as the conscience of society by Jessup, Frances / Contemporary Review
Although a scribe subordinate to Angela, he becomes directly involved in Angela's experience, which touches him in an extraordinary manner: he is either unable to write with any order or unable to write at all when he is "inordinatus conscientia":</p> <pre> Unde et quando inordinatus conscientia ivi aliquando ad scribendum, ita sibi et mihi totum detruncabatur quod nihil potui scribere ordinatum; quare, ut poteram, studebam ordinatus conscientia ire ad loquendum et ad scribendum.
Angela da Foligno's Memoriale: the male scribe, the female voice, and ... by Cervigni, Dino S. / Italica
 
 
 
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