ABSTRACT
The etymology of the word 'conscience' tells us that it is a special form of 'knowledge' or 'consciousness'. The peculiarity of 'conscience' is that it is knowledge about, the emotional value of the ideas we have concerning the motives of our actions. The question of 'truth' which is usually raised here in a quite non-objective way, as to whether it has been proved that God himself speaks to us with the voice of conscience, has nothing to do with the psychological problem. A psychic reality is a psychological truth that the opinion exists that the voice of conscience is the voice of God. The more 'scientific' it pretends to be more welcome is its so-called objectivity, because this is an excellent way of getting rid of the inconvenient emotional components of conscience, notwithstanding that these are the real dynamics of the moral reaction. Primitive man regards the autonomy of the psyche as demonism and magic.
