Conscience, on the other hand, is awareness of the fact that, when the moral consciousness declares pure duty to be the essence of its action, this pure purpose is a dissemblance of the truth of the matter; for the fact is that pure duty consists in the empty abstraction of pure thought, and has its reality and its content only in a specific reality, in a reality which is the reality of Consciousness itself and consciousness not as a mere 'thought thing' but as an individual.