FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE LEGAL AND RELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS

Marius Andreescu
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Marius Andreescu: Universitatea din Piteşti; Curtea de Apel Piteşti

Management Intercultural, 2015, issue 34, 303-311

Abstract: Conscience is a defining existential reality of man, whose meaning can be seen only through an interdisciplinary unceasing effort of thinking and knowledge. In this study, we aim to make such an analysis of the conscience as an ontological foundation and characteristic of man, in its individual and social dimension, whose basis is made up of philosophical, theological and legal ideas, concepts and theories. Freedom of conscience is the main feature of the manifestations of man as a person within the specific environment of his/her existence. From the legal point of view, freedom of conscience is a complex fundamental right requesting a wide legislative system in order to establish and guarantee it. In our opinion, both the basis and the legitimacy of the legal system protecting the freedom of conscience are given by the philosophical truths and the truths of faith, as expressed in theological writings and meditations. In this study, we identify the theological and philosophical bases of the freedom of conscience and their reflection in the legal field.

Keywords: Self-conscience; Conscience of inner self; Social conscience; Freedom of conscience as a fundamental right; Theological; philosophical and legal meanings of conscience and freedom of conscience; Constitutional guarantees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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