The English term “conscience” has its ancient predecessors in the Greek terms synesis, syneidesis, syneidos and in the Latin translation conscientia. The Greek prefix syn and the Latin prefix con imply that conscience is knowledge of a specific kind, not merely general consciousness, although it means that in certain contexts and logically presupposes the human capacity for self-awareness (Atkins, 2014; Bernard, 1987). Conscience is “with-knowledge” or “shared knowledge,” or in its verbal form, synoida, it denotes “to know together with.” Although there is some evide…