Conscience
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- Created on: 02-04-18 18:48
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- Conscience
- Aquinas
- Theological Approach
- Ratio
- Reason (every human has this ability)
- Made with reason (God has made us part of nature)
- Syenderesis Rule
- We aim to do good and avoid evil
- Natural ability to aim towards primary prescepts
- Conscience
- Is a process; Ratio > Syenderesis > Conscientia
- Conscientia
- Selecting and applying knowledge gained from syenderesis and ratio
- Action of applying the precepts and making a judgement
- Ratio
- Ignorance / Evil
- Vincible; actions we can avoid
- e.g stealing, drinking, killing
- We are responsible lack of reasoning
- Invincible; actions we cant avoid
- e.g child doing something naughty
- We are not responsible
- Vincible; actions we can avoid
- Theological Approach
- Frued
- Conscience
- I.D
- Part of personality you are born with
- Demanding; infant notions; 'I want' and other desires
- Unconscious demands, e.g baby knows what they want unconsciously based on pleasure principle
- If you followed the ID alone, you would do nothing but basic instincts
- Pleasure Principle
- Super Ego
- Develops at age of 4
- Works on morality principle
- Encourages good actions based on our conscience
- (Conscience is given to us by parents, society indicating what is right and wrong
- The ego ideal, is the ideal people have of what they should be like
- The 'you cant have' part of personality
- A desire to follow what is expected of us
- Ego
- Rational part of the personality
- Works on reality principle, tries to detain what the ID wants
- Works out how to satisfy the person
- Develops from age of 18 months
- Balances Super ego and ID
- I.D
- Pyscho Sexual development
- Oedipus Complex (Sexually attracted to parents)
- Oral (0-2)
- Anal (2-3)
- Phallic (3-7)
- Latency(7-11)
- Genital (11- forever)
- During these stages if something negative happens it will effect future
- Conscience
- Strengths and Weakness
- Both suggest conciousness is a process Aquinas > Thinking , Freud > Developmental
- Aquinas
- Strength
- Can account for errors
- We do think and process
- Fletcher > 'Conscience is a verb not a noun'
- People aim for evil
- What about revelation?
- Newman > Conscience is voice of God
- Butler > Intuition from God
- Newman > Conscience is voice of God
- What about revelation?
- We do think and process
- Can account for errors
- Weakness
- Strength
- Freud
- Strength
- Lots of evidence
- Mary Bell
- Fraum > Over estimates authority figures
- Too anecdotal
- Too focused on sex
- Weakness
- Piaget supports with cognitive development
- Childhood has big impact
- Strength
- Aquinas
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