Assess the view that conscience need not always be obeyed.

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  • Assess the view that conscience need not always be obeyed.
  • What does this say about God's reason?
    • Paragraph 3: Aquinas - distinguished between innate ability to distinguish between right and wrong (synderesis) and the judgement made by using reason (conscientia). Believed people tended to sway to good and away from evil ( if they did do wrong they were seeking the apparent good not the real good ).
  • Paragraph 6: Fromm and the two types of conscience. Both are subjective ( either developed form imposition of particular authority figure or from one's own interpretation of behaviour. Arguably this is not reliable.

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