Conscience
The instance in which someone determines from himself alone what is good — the culmination of morality and, at the same time, its turning point.
Developed in
Part IV
Cross-references
Die grenze, die hegel zieht
Conscience does not know the content of the good from itself. It must recognize from the world what is good; otherwise it remains formal and can justify any conviction.
Deshalb der übergang
Where conscience seeks a content, it finds it in ethical life — in relations that already exist.
Entwickelt in
Part IV