Published: 2024-12-31

Report on the Conference "Conscience Clause for Everyone?," Institute of Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, June 12, 2024

Jacek Meller
Studia Philosophiae Christianae
Section: Reviews and Reports
https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2024.60.S.03

Abstract

The pluralistic worldview of modern societies, the need to establish a legal order regulating the various areas of life and the simultaneous recognition of the personal dignity of every human being along with their freedom of conscience, lead to consider how to resolve potential conflicts between the orders of law and the norm, the source of which is individual conscience. One solution lies in the recognition of conscientious objection: the possibility of not performing an action permitted or ordered by law. The conference investigated the anthropological basis of conscientious objection, current tendencies to narrow or expand this sphere of human freedom, as well as the practice of respecting this right in certain professions.

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Received: 27/06/2024. Reviewed: 12/09/2024. Accepted: 21/10/2024.

Keywords:

conscience clause, conscientious objection, human rights, philosophy of law

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Meller, J. (2024). Report on the Conference "Conscience Clause for Everyone?," Institute of Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, June 12, 2024. Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 60(2), 315–321. https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2024.60.S.03

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