一般注記I At the beginning. Early stirrings ; From Homer to Aristotle ; Enter the Stoics -- II The Christian centuries. From Paul to Augustine ; Conscience in the age of faith ; Luther and after -- III From Machiavelli to Nietzsche. The great divide ; The death of God ; Storming the heavens -- IV Life without God. From liberation to dressage ; Alterntives to conscience: Japan ; Alternatives to conscience: China -- V Conscience in the Third Reich. Those who commanded ; Those who killed ; Those who resisted -- VI Idols old and new. Learning to say no ; Conscience and health ; Conscience and the environment -- VIi The man-machine. From atomism to behaviorism ; The rise of the robots ; The electrical-chemical machine -- Conclusion: At journey's end.