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CONSCIENCE AND REASON, by Grace ree Allen and Unwin. English price, (GRACE STUART believes that conscience is the product of social pressure on the individual, The greatest need, she says, is to give and receive love; and this need is too often frustrated by the sense of guilt. If men could rely less on the ideas of guilt and punishment, and more on reason, with an emphasis on love and approval instead of judgment, we might still learn to be human. The argument is stated clearly and vigorously. If, however, we must create a new kind of super-ego (for Miss Stuart adopts the Freudian concept), we are merely being asked to make a new kind of society in which morality will be influenced by more enlightened methods in the training and treatment of children. And this does not seem to be very different from what men of goodwill have always been trying to do, though not necessarily. because they. share Miss Stuart’s beliefs: A suspicion remains that man, being what he is, will retain the connection between conscience and guilt, no matter how enlightened his society may be. All that may change is the scale of values, the standards of good and evil, by which his conduct is judged. In other words, conscience is active for different reasons in different ages and cultures, but its
nature remains unchanged.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 14
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231UNCERTAIN GUIDE New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 14
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