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For the origins of conscience in legal pleading, I am indebted to
C. A. Pierce, Conscience in the New
Testament (London: SCM Press, 1955). This notably perceptive
study abounds in fresh insights and is especially to be
recommended.
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Valuable observations on Christian traditions of conscience and
the predicaments of conscience today are to be found in Paul Tillich, the
‘Transmoral Conscience’, in Morality and
Beyond (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1966), pp.
65–81.
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For a fine discussion of conscience in Luther’s early theology,
see Michael G. Baylor, Action and Person: Conscience
in Late Scholasticism and the Young Luther (Leiden: Brill,
1977). Some of the possible extremities of Protestant conviction are
discussed by Steven E. Ozment, Mysticism and
Dissent: Religious Ideology and Social Protest in the Sixteenth
Century (New Haven and London: Yale University Press,
1973).
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Many of the writings considered in my second chapter, together
with other subjects of importance, are treated with impressive depth in
Edward G. Andrew, Conscience and Its Critics:
Protestant Conscience, Enlightenment Reason, and Modern
Subjectivity (Toronto and London: University of Toronto
Press, 2001). Highly recommended.
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Especially pertinent to Kant, and also richly engaged with other
themes treated in this book, is Thomas E. Hill, ‘Four Conceptions of
Conscience’, Human Welfare and Moral Worth: Kantian
Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2002).
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Additional perspectives on issues treated here are to be found in
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) and Paul Ricoeur, Oneself as Another (Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 1992).
