This classic view of conscience, then, has two steps.
The first step is some sort of impetus to do good (this is the ordinary sense of conscience). The second step (what philosophers call "conscience") is the actual "process" by which we discern right and wrong.
Because of the way they set things up, theorists end up having conscience do two sorts of things. One is purely intellectual, figuring out how to apply the rule. The second is more about conquering our bad instincts to make sure that the will to do right wins out.
That seems not just confusing but confused to me.
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