The present paper, as the subtitle indicates, reexamines the conscience of Huckleberry Finn, which means both that the author provides a close reading of key chapters of Mark Twain's great novel and that he engages Jonathan Bennett's well-known and oft-cited paper, "The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn." Bennett says that an episode in chapter 16 of the novel "brilliantly illustrates how fiction can be instructive about real life." The author agrees that fiction can teach one about life--though of course living beings must judge fiction's claims in the light of life--and he also agrees that Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" presents much of interest to philosophers who seek to learn about the moral life in particular. The author's principal thesis is that Bennett's account of Huck's conscience is far too simplistic and that this account risks bringing conscience into discredit, which is to say wrongly cheapening one's estimation of it. (Contains 81 notes.)