[ExI] conscience

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 16:47:53 UTC 2010


2010/1/10 BillK <pharos at gmail.com>:
> I don't speak Italian, but it seems reasonable that Italians could say
> 'coscienza morale' when they mean conscience.

Yes. Or, more often, you pick the right meaning from the context (as
in "esame di coscienza" before undergoing confession).

But we have the distinction between conscious and conscientious (even
though the second term refers to diligence and scrupulous more than to
morality).

-- 
Stefano Vaj



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