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What (who) is Scruple - definition

JUDGMENT THAT ASSISTS IN DISTINGUISHING RIGHT FROM WRONG
Scruple; Scrupulous; Scruples; Over-scrupulous; Pang of conscience
  • [[Global warming]] protestors in Chicago 2008
  • [[Gao Zhisheng]] human rights lawyer abducted in China
  • [[Adam Smith]]: conscience shows what relates to ourselves in its proper shape and dimensions
  • [[Albert Einstein]] associated conscience with suprapersonal thoughts, feelings and aspirations.
  • Schopenhauer]] considered that the good conscience we experience after an unselfish act verifies that our true self exists outside our physical person
  • The medieval Persian philosopher [[Ibn Sina]] ([[Avicenna]]) developed a sensory deprivation thought experiment to explore the relationship between conscience and God
  • [[Henry David Thoreau]]: Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator?
  • [[Marcus Aurelius]] bronze fragment, Louvre, Paris: "To move from one unselfish action to another with God in mind. Only there, delight and stillness."
  • [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]] (1932)
  • J.S. Bach]]. Original page from Credo (Symbolum Nicenum) section of [[Mass in B minor]]
  • [[Charles Darwin]] thought that any animal endowed with well-marked social instincts would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as its intellectual powers approximated man's.
  • [[Anton Pavlovich Chekhov]]. Tretyakov Gallery.
  • Illustration of [[François Chifflart]] (1825–1901) for ''La Conscience'' (by [[Victor Hugo]])
  • [[Darfur]] [[refugee camp]] in [[Chad]]: a challenge to the world's conscience.
  • Protests in India against the [[2012 Delhi gang rape case]]
  • [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], author of ''[[Crime and Punishment]]''
  • [[Eugène Delacroix]], ''[[Hamlet]] and Horatio in the Graveyard'' (1839, oil on canvas)
  • Amnesty International protects prisoners of conscience. Stamp from Faroe Islands, 1986.
  • Gandhi in Noakhali, 1946: civil resistance or [[satyagraha]]
  • Siddhartha]]''.
  • [[Immanuel Kant]]: the moral law within us has true infinity.
  • Internet Map. [[Ninian Smart]] predicts global communication will facilitate ''world conscience''.
  • Jan van Ruysbroeck]] viewed a pure conscience as facilitating "an outflowing losing of oneself in the abyss of that eternal object which is the highest and chief blessedness"
  • [[Jeremy Bentham]]: "[[Fanaticism]] never sleeps ... it is never stopped by ''conscience''; for it has pressed ''conscience'' into its service."
  • [[John Locke]] viewed the widespread social fact of conscience as a justification for natural rights.
  • [[John Ralston Saul]]: consumers risk turning over their conscience to technical experts and to the ideology of free markets
  • [[Lester Ott]], [[conscientious objector]] during the [[First World War]]
  • [[Nikiforos Lytras]], ''Antigone in front of the dead Polynices'' (1865), oil on canvas, National Gallery of Greece-Alexandros Soutzos Museum.
  • [[Nonviolent]] protestors in [[Washington, D.C.]] in 2010 opposed to the [[Iraq War]]
  • Gravesite of [[Anna Politkovskaya]] in Russia
  • A.H.]] 509 = 1115–1116. Ghazali's crisis of epistemological skepticism was resolved by "a light which God Most High cast into my breast ... the key to most knowledge."
  • NASA climate scientist [[James Hansen]] arrested in 2011 for civil disobedience against laws allowing a tar sands oil pipeline
  • [[Graffiti]] portrait in [[Ramallah]] of murdered Arab cartoon artist [[Naji al-Ali]]
  • Gravesite of [[Neda Agha-Soltan]] in Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Iran
  • Underwater American [[nuclear test]] in the Pacific. Worldwide expressions of 'conscience' against such explosions caused the French Government to cease atmospheric tests at [[Mururoa]] for political reasons.
  • [[Peter Singer]]: distinguished between immature "traditional" and highly reasoned "critical" conscience
  • [[Samuel Johnson]] (1775) stated that "No man's conscience can tell him the right of another man."
  • Seated [[Buddha]], [[Gandhara]], 2nd century CE. The Buddha linked conscience with compassion for those who must endure cravings and suffering in the world until right conduct culminates in right mindfulness and right contemplation.
  • [[Sombrero Galaxy]]: A [[United Nations]] treaty declares [[Outer Space]] the [[common heritage of humanity]]. [[Garrett Hardin]] doubted the capacity of ''conscience'' to protect such commons areas
  • Benedict de Spinoza]]: moral problems and our emotional responses to them should be reasoned from the perspective of eternity.
  • [[Chiune Sugihara]] practised ''conscientious noncompliance'' in issuing visas to fleeing Jews in Lithuania in 1939
  • [[Qur’ān]] Sura 49. Surah al-Hujurat, 49:13 declares: "come to know each other, the noblest of you, in the sight of God, are the ones possessing taqwá".
  • On the Threshold of Eternity]]''.
  • [[Vincent van Gogh]], 1890. [[Kröller-Müller Museum]]. ''The Good Samaritan'' (after Delacroix).
  • War criminal [[Adolf Eichmann]] in passport used to enter Argentina: his conscience spoke with the "respectable voice" of the indoctrinated wartime German society that surrounded him.
  • Holman Hunt]], 1853

scruple         
(scruples)
Scruples are moral principles or beliefs that make you unwilling to do something that seems wrong.
...a man with no moral scruples.
N-VAR: usu pl
scruple         
¦ noun
1. a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of an action.
2. historical a unit of weight equal to 20 grains used by apothecaries.
archaic a very small amount.
¦ verb hesitate or be reluctant to do something that one thinks may be wrong.
Origin
ME: from Fr. scrupule or L. scrupulus, from scrupus, lit. 'rough pebble', (figuratively) 'anxiety'.
Scruple         
·noun Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
II. Scruple ·vt To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
III. Scruple ·noun A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
IV. Scruple ·vt To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to Question.
V. Scruple ·vi To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
VI. Scruple ·noun Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.

Wikipedia

Conscience

Conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system. Conscience stands in contrast to elicited emotion or thought due to associations based on immediate sensory perceptions and reflexive responses, as in sympathetic central nervous system responses. In common terms, conscience is often described as leading to feelings of remorse when a person commits an act that conflicts with their moral values. The extent to which conscience informs moral judgment before an action and whether such moral judgments are or should be based on reason has occasioned debate through much of modern history between theories of basics in ethic of human life in juxtaposition to the theories of romanticism and other reactionary movements after the end of the Middle Ages.

Religious views of conscience usually see it as linked to a morality inherent in all humans, to a beneficent universe and/or to divinity. The diverse ritualistic, mythical, doctrinal, legal, institutional and material features of religion may not necessarily cohere with experiential, emotive, spiritual or contemplative considerations about the origin and operation of conscience. Common secular or scientific views regard the capacity for conscience as probably genetically determined, with its subject probably learned or imprinted as part of a culture.

Commonly used metaphors for conscience include the "voice within", the "inner light", or even Socrates' reliance on what the Greeks called his "daimōnic sign", an averting (ἀποτρεπτικός apotreptikos) inner voice heard only when he was about to make a mistake. Conscience, as is detailed in sections below, is a concept in national and international law, is increasingly conceived of as applying to the world as a whole, has motivated numerous notable acts for the public good and been the subject of many prominent examples of literature, music and film.

Examples of use of Scruple
1. In particular, medical workers make no scruple to render their own blood and skin to patients.
2. How dare these provincial natives show the same moral scruple as might a God–fearing Londoner?
3. They made no scruple to change names without permission of the persons in question.
4. Each was brave and highly intelligent, but also selfish, cruel and without scruple.
5. Yet, the US did not scruple to rain down Daisy Cutter bombs on innocent Afghans.