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CONSCIENCE
Phenomena and Theories

HENDRIK G. STOKER
TRANSLATED BY PHILIP E. BLOSSER

Advance Praise . . .
“The scholarship is solid and amazing, displaying a sound knowl-
edge of related literature reflected in notes and wide-ranging refer-
ences. Stoker was on the forefront of knowledge about the leading
figures of various fields of study. His exposition on the ideas and
conceptions of the leading intellectuals of his time is impressive and
in many instances could serve as a brief orientation in the views of
the authors discussed by him.”
—DANIE STRAUSS, North-West University

HENDRIK GERHARDHUS STOKER (1899–1993) was

Conscience: Phenomena and Theories was first published in a leading Calvinist philosopher who taught in South
German in 1925 as a dissertation by Hendrik G. Stoker under
Africa throughout his life.
the title Das Gewissen: Erscheinungsformen und Theorien.
It was received with acclaim by philosophers at the time, PHILIP E. BLOSSER is a professor of philosophy at
including Stoker’s dissertation mentor Max Scheler, Mar- Sacred Heart Major Seminary.
tin Heidegger, and Herbert Spielberg, as quite possibly the
single most comprehensive philosophical treatment of con- $60 • 466 pages
science and as a major contribution in the phenomenological ISBN: 978-0-268-10317-0 (pbk)
tradition.
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