caa a22 4500 388107111 CHVBK 20180307125342.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900010465 doi S0008423900010465 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900010465 Andrew Edward G. University of Toronto Hobbes on Conscience Within the Law and Without [Elektronische Daten] [Edward G. Andrew] This article seeks to clarify the meaning of conscience and to exhibit its role in the philosophy of Hobbes. The author compares Hobbes's philosophy to Locke's doctrine. Instead of the usual contrast of Hobbes, the enemy to the claims of conscience, and Locke, the defender of the rights of conscience, he shows that Hobbes found a place for conscience within the law—the rights of defendants to a jury of their choice, and the rights of jurors to a verdict according to their conscience—whereas Locke found a place for conscience outside the law, in the judgment of revolutionaries when a revolution is justifiable or successful. In elaborating Hobbes's views of trial by jury, the author suggests that the best forensic metaphor for conscience is a juror (rather than the more usual ones of a witness, a judge or a legislator). Conscience is subjective certainty, dangerous outside an institutional setting, but indispensable for decisions not based on demonstrable knowledge, such as a juror's verdict beyond reasonable doubt. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1999 Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/2(1999-06), 203-225 0008-4239 32:2<203 1999 32 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010465 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010465 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Andrew Edward G. University of Toronto NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/2(1999-06), 203-225 0008-4239 32:2<203 1999 32 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge