conscience
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- Conscience in Aquinas
- Centred on Natural Law
- Conscience part of the intellectual
- Rational approach to derive from basic laws - what ought to be done in a particular situation
- Linked to moral virtues and the Golden Mean
- Golden Mean - or golden middle way is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
- Summa Theologica - describes conscience
- 'Application of knowledge to activity'.
- Method humans work out what's morally right
- 'Application of knowledge to activity'.
- Synderesis - Conscience (Greek)
- Identifies as recto ratio 'right reason'
- intelltucal process of gaining knowledge
- Sifting through evidence logically
- Not a command
- Conscientia - Conscience (Latin)
- Process of applying right reason to a spefici issue
- Centred on Natural Law
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