The Formation of Conscience in an Age of Technology

In this article, moral development is construed as the educational formation of conscience, and conscience is concerned with much more than moral conduct in the modern sense of "moral." Thus, a contrast is drawn between moral philosophy and a philosophy of moral education. The educational development of conscience is not viewed as the progressive stagelike emergence of rational moral judgment. It is viewed instead as the elaboration and continuing juxtaposition of the different voices of conscience as craft, membership, sacrifice, memory, and imagination.