conscience recap

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  • conscience
    • 'good' is absolute
      • Aquinas' views on natural law
        • synderisis + ratio
        • 4 tiers of law
          • divine
          • human
          • eternal
          • natural
        • can fall and be mislead
          • real and apparent goods
          • vincible and invincible ignorance
          • born in the image of God and might develop a likeness of God
            • if we stick to the teachings of the catholic church
              • BIBLE
        • approx 1.2 billion catholics worldwide
          • 1.4 muslims also have similar ideas
            • cannot argue that people do not follow these ideas anymore as billions of people continue to believe them.
      • leads to God
    • 'good' is relative
      • Sigmund Freud
        • atheist perspective
        • Superego
          • does not know right from wrong absolutely
            • comes from the general views of society
          • guides our thinking
        • Fromm's idea of authoritarian conscience
          • goodness = obedience
          • goes beyond obedience to authority
            • think for self
              • general principles of justice, love, fairness and truth .
                • Bonhoeffer
                  • Hannah Arendt
                    • Jesus
                      • MLK
                        • Romero
                  • link with absolute good because of synderisis and ratio
        • humanitarian conscience
      • conscience as a product of society
        • what is deemed acceptable behaviour
      • no reference to God or absolute morality
    • Protestant Christians follow Augustinian tradition which influenced Newman and Butler who give us more of an idea that conscience is more of a direct voice of God in our minds.
    • faith is a key element; cannot know right or wrong for certain

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