Awareness, Detachment, Conscience

As has been previously discussed, a significant incoherence in Sartre's concept of Consciousness is that it both reveals an object and negates it, which, as both connecting with and disconnecting from the object, seems contradictory. One solution that has been considered, that Consciousness Sublates its object, synthesizes the seemingly antithetical processes. Another one, on the other hand, draws their distinction more clearly. As has been previously discussed, the French word 'conscience', which Sartre uses almost exclusively, is ambiguous, since it does not distinguish between the English terms 'conscience' and 'consciousness'. Now, because the conventional concept of 'conscience', in the English sense, refers to a mental event that takes no object, the locution, in English, 'conscience of X' is never used, i. e. to describe that object X is the target of someone's conscience. However, on the basis of Heidegger's Ontological concept of Conscience, 'conscience of X' is meaningful, i. e. as = 'one's awareness of X in light of one's ownmost possibilities'. Analogously, in Sartre's System, the expression could mean 'the reflective awareness of X', in contrast with 'consciousness of X', which could be restricted to 'unreflective awareness of X'. Or, to put it another way, 'consciousness of X' could mean 'revealing X', with respect to which 'conscience of X' would mean 'detachment from the revealing X'.