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In our daily lives, we always encounter different dilemmas about our

actions, this is our conscience telling us what we had done is either good or bad
and it strikes us back depending upon the gravity or severity of our actions or own
doings. There are different expressions about conscience that we meet in our daily
lives: man conscience, freedom of conscience, guilty conscience, and qualms of
conscience. These conscience helps us to rationalize one’s thinking before doing
something or before acting something out.
First, we have man of conscience . Man of conscience is more concern about
the feeling of what is correct or wrong in one's direct or thought processes,
prompting one toward right activity meaning, to follow the directs of soul . Second,
we have freedom of conscience. Freedom of conscience talks about the right to
follow one's own beliefs in matters of religion and morality, in other words, a
person who is free of one’s thought on what he or she believes in . Third, there is
guilty conscience. A concrete example of a guilty conscience is when a person
feels the guilt on the prior action that he had done or what he will be doing . And
fourth, there is qualms of conscience. A concrete example of qualms of conscience
is when a person has hesitation upon the actions he had done, in other words,
having a sudden feeling of uneasiness about something.
These four expressions can be related to the three different levels of
conscience. On the first level of conscience, as will fundamentally oriented to the
absolute good expresses itself in the judgement of moral existence: “do good,
avoid evil.” It is related sensibly on man of conscience basically on doing what
should be good, and determining if one’s action is good or bad . Conscience as
concrete practical judgement revolves around the conclusion of the process of
applying the universal principles of morality to a concrete situation . It can be
related to the freedom of conscience in a sense where an individual is also free on
what he/she should do because that person feels that it is his or her obligation to
this action. Lastly, we have conscience in crisis that talks about the dilemma of
one’s judgement about what is to be done . This last level of conscience can be
related to guilty conscience. A concrete example is when a person can experience a
crisis on the action he had done before meaning, that person feels the guilt
concerning what he had done. In another example, conscience in crisis can be also
related to the qualms of conscience. An example of this is when an individual has
an uneasiness feeling on what the act he had committed and feels the hesitation.

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