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What is the conscience?

August 14, 2019 After 25 Jan Revolution, All Articles, By Dr Badrawi 666 Views

Today my granddaughter asked me a question worth discussing; What is the conscience?
What does one have a conscience?!
I answered her directly by saying:
It is a feeling of a person’s assessment of himself according to a set of moral values ​​that have been deposited in his conscience through experience and life about what is right and what is wrong, and in this case it is relative to each of the human beings. Others have him if he is extremely sensitive to others’ evaluation of him, regardless of his personal values.
And conscience may exaggerate cruelty to oneself sometimes by exaggerating the estimation of mistakes.
But I really don’t think I made it easy for her

Between myself and myself, I said it is permissible that the essence of the philosophy of religions historically was with the aim of creating a collective conscience of absolute right and wrong according to divine standards so that it is not relative from one person to another. It means building a moral base for societies. But we have transformed religion into sanctifying its means, not its heart
And I heard a sage say: Conscience is that part of the mind, which is responsible for the moral course of man. It is the one who transmits instructions and warnings to us to evaluate and control the types of thoughts we think and actions we act, so that it causes us pain and guilt when we do things that do not conform to our moral principles. Conscience urges us to prefer the right, the good, and the good, over the wrong, the bad, and the bad. The conscience directs us by giving its judgment on what we have thought and acted upon, and what we intend to think and act upon.
The French thinker, Victor Hugo, said, “Conscience is the voice of God in man.”
And he also says in his book Les Miserable Genius
“Conscience is an arena in which lusts and temptations compete, and a cave of thoughts that arouse in us potentials of shame or ugliness.”
The Greek philosopher Socrates says: “Just as the law prevents man from transgression, so conscience prevents man from doing evil.”

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About Dr. Hossam Badrawi

Dr. Hossam Badrawi
He is a politician, intellect, and prominent physician. He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. Dr. Hossam supported the Tamarod movement in its beginning and he declared that toppling the Brotherhood was a must and a pressing risk that had to be taken few months prior to the June 30 revolution and confirmed that the army would support the legitimacy given by the people
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