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A five page paper which looks at Kant's definition of conscience and duty in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, particularly in terms of the way conscience and organised religion may come into conflict.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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Consciousness has been defined in a number of ways over the centuries; as Jaynes points out, men have been conscious of the problem of consciousness almost since consciousness began (Jaynes,
1976, 2). However, he makes it plain that the way in which consciousness is perceived and analysed has changed and evolved, as human beings found different ways of looking at
the concept. For example, he notes that a popular theory in
the early twentieth century viewed consciousness as being a property of matter: it was thought that it could be defined and assessed in the same way that other particles in
space could be analysed. Since the scientific theories of the time were concerned with reducing the interaction of matter with other matter to a series of mathematical formulae, it was
felt that a similar approach could be taken with regard to consciousness.
A rather less popular view was that consciousness was something which all forms of protoplasm had in common: Jaynes was not in agreement with this view, asserting that
what was perceived as consciousness in, for example, an earthworm was simply a result of regarding the worm from an anthropomorphic stance: the agony .. is our agony, not the
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