막스 셸러의 양심론에 관한 연구

As to Max Scheler a conscience is gained in an issue of our increasing moral insight into the good from our own life-experiences. It in this sense is essentially irreplaceable by any possible moral sentiment, moral cognition-ability. It only begins to work when any norms, moral laws cease, and when an acting and willing already do not satisfy any norms and moral laws. Scheler asserted that a conscience represents the individual form of the economization of moral insight. For example a conscience as individual form of the economization of moral insight can help a moral insight only when it is a matter of the above plus the necessary moral insight which is not and cannot be contained in the universal norms, and in which the process of moral cognition is completed. We also ought to see that all ethical cognition must be based on the value-experiences that occur in feeling and preferring, just as all theoretical thinking must be based on factexperiences. At this time a conscience contributes to ethical cognition as an assistant for moral action. Hence eventually a conscience is not a final court of appeals charged with the final say in moral matters, or is not a practical reason, a self-confidence of subject. It is a contributor to moral insight as the very core of one's own individual moral activities and moral experiences, and at the same time is only one form among others of the economization of ultimate moral insight.