Abstract:
The relevance of the study is due to the need for a conceptual analysis of the transformation of such a
human phenomenon as conscience in the period of the XX-XXI centuries. In this regard, the purpose of this study is
to determine the main features of the reflection of conscience in the public consciousness of the XX – XXI centuries
and its key functional characteristics. The main scientific methods for studying the issue are basic general scientific
methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, comparative, systematic, which allow a thorough approach to
the presentation of the topic and create a structured picture of moral and ethical transformations. The article reveals
the fundamental approaches to the interpretation of conscience in modern historiography. The results of the research
can be actively used not only in modern philosophical science, as a substantiation of the main approaches to the
interpretation of the actual perception of conscience, but also in related humanities to confirm historical, moral,
ethical, psychological and other changes in the process of social evolution.
