Conscience
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- Created on: 19-11-17 15:53
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- Conscience
- Eric Fromm
- Came from an authority
- Authority comes from fear
- Especially the fear of displeasing authority
- Conscience submits to demands
- It shouldn't have authority over us
- As it can lead to wrong actions
- Authority comes from fear
- At 1st followed Freud and Marx
- Attitudes are conditioned by their economic and social background
- CHANGE OF OPNINION
- Hope and individual liberation from self-alienation
- "Man's conscience is the voice that calls him back to himself"
- Hope and individual liberation from self-alienation
- Came from an authority
- Butler
- The voice of God
- "Our proper governor"
- Our nature leads to the moral perfection of God and deny any imperfection of him
- Humans differ from animals is our capacity to reflect on our actions
- Makes us distinctly human
- Has final say in moral decisions
- "Magisterially exerts itself"
- "If it had power to match its obvious authority, conscience would absolutely govern the world"
- The voice of God
- Piaget
- Develops over time
- We don't develop the ability to think abstractly until 11
- Before age 11 we have a 'hetereonymous" morality
- Expect punishment/ reward
- After 11 we have a more "autonomous" morality
- Appreciation for consequence
- Influenced by parents
- Develops over time
- Augustine
- Voice from God telling right from wrong
- All goodness comes from God and e knows our actions
- Newman
- Messenger from God
- It's a separate entity
- "Sacred in its authority"
- Aquinas
- Different societies -> different perspectives on "right behaviour"
- Rationalist approach - conscience has a possibility of error
- Even so, we should always follow it
- Authority comes from God
- The ability to use reason and the natural inclination to do good and avoid evil
- Inbuilt understanding of right from wrong
- Eric Fromm
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