Conscience, Conscientious, Totality

Despite their divergent ordinary usages, the equivalence of 'conscience' and 'conscientious' is exhibited in the expression 'conscientious objector'.  Furthermore, Kant shows 'conscience' as consisting in a totalizing process, in which distinct subjects are revealed as equal before a universal law.  Likewise, 'conscientious' is usually taken as synonymous with 'thorough', which connotes 'totality', i. e. all the details involved in some activity.  Thus, despite their denotative differences, 'conscience' and 'conscientious' are structurally essentially equivalent.