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[6] These two words have no exact equivalents in Greek or Latin,
Conscientia, dignitas, honos denote different shade of meaning. This
difference is most appreciable in the combination of the two modern
terms delicate conscience, scrupulous conscience, and the phrase of
stake one's honour on this or that, make it a point of honor, the laws
of honor, etc. The technical terms of antique morality: the
beautiful, truthfulness, the sovereign good, indicate ideas of another
stamp and origin.
[7] Alas, modern 20th century democratic Man has given up honor and
conscience, all he has got to do is to be correct and follow the
thousands of rules governing his life. And , of course, make sure
that he is following orders or sure of not being caught when he breaks
the natural rules of friendship, honor or conscience. Conscience, on
the other had, will always lurk somewhere in the shadows of our mind,
because we all know how we would like to be treated by others, and
will be forced not to transgress certain boundaries in case an
intended victim might be in a position to take his revenge. That I am
not alone in seeing things this way I noted in an interview with the
79 year old French author Michel D?on in Le Figaro on the 16th of May
1998 in which Mr.
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