Conscience
- Created by: Bethrevise
- Created on: 13-03-14 11:40
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- Conscience
- Cor= God has written his law on our hearts - HEBREW THINKING
- Good heart = seeks God and listens to him
- Bad cor = closed to God, hardened by sin
- GREEK THINKING
- 'Syneidesis' = Conscience
- 'To Know'
- Apostle Paul used it for those who know the will of God as that intended to rule their lives
- We should be able to have a sense of guilt before God
- Plutarch, ulcer of guilt from reason- cant be reasoned away
- People act in a certain way because their conscience requires it
- Duty to think of others' conscience
- Meat offered to idols, wouldnt hurt someone with a clear conscience but those with a vulnerable conscience may see it as a way of leading back to paganism
- Do not take a good action if it can lead others to sin
- Meat offered to idols, wouldnt hurt someone with a clear conscience but those with a vulnerable conscience may see it as a way of leading back to paganism
- Duty to think of others' conscience
- People have the ability to reason good and bad actions
- JEROME:SYNDERESIS
- Innate ability to reason good and evil
- Directs humans to do good and restrain from doing evil
- Innate ability to reason good and evil
- JEROME:SYNDERESIS
- We should be able to have a sense of guilt before God
- Innate, yet needs maturity and training
- Apostle Paul used it for those who know the will of God as that intended to rule their lives
- Refers to goodness or badness of actions perfromed by an individual in relationship with others
- 'To Know'
- 'Syneidesis' = Conscience
- AQUINAS: VOICE OF REASON
- Rejected idea that we have innate knowledge of what is right and wrong
- We have ability to distinguish between good and evil
- Reason unlocks God's law within
- Conscience has ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY
- It is always right to follow your conscience
- BUT may lead to wrong decisions because of wrong practical reasoning or wrong principles
- It is always right to follow your conscience
- Conscience has ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY
- Conscience needs to be informed
- Ignorance leads astray
- Reason must be aquired
- Ignorance leads astray
- SYNDERESIS makes known God's general principles within us
- Practical reason deals with specific issues
- Through reflection on human nature
- Practical reasoning for specific issues or primary precepts??????
- Through reflection on human nature
- Practical reason deals with specific issues
- Reason unlocks God's law within
- We have ability to distinguish between good and evil
- to find God's law within us
- Conscientia
- Ethical judgement leading to derived secondary principles
- Prudence
- right reasoning
- Developed by balancing our needs against the needs of others
- right reasoning
- 'The mind of man making moral judgements'
- Rejected idea that we have innate knowledge of what is right and wrong
- BUTLER: INTUITIVE GUIDE FROM GOD
- distinguishes us from animals
- humans can act out of self- love or benevolence
- Conscience directs us to other-love (Altruism)
- humans can act out of self- love or benevolence
- ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY
- 'magisterially exerts itself spontaneously without being consulted.'
- Automatic
- Conscience controls human nature
- It is the law of our nature
- 'The guide assigned to us by the author of our nature: it therefore belongs to our condition of being.'
- It is the law of our nature
- BUT, evil= to blind oneself to conscience to make way for the right action
- Corruption of conscience and self-deceit is the worst sin
- 'magisterially exerts itself spontaneously without being consulted.'
- principle of reflection to distinguish approval or disapproval of our actions
- distinguishes us from animals
- NEWMAN: VOICE OF GOD
- To follow conscience is to follow God's divine law
- voice of God within
- A principle planted within (innate)
- Infallible- God is infallible
- Our one-to-one relationship with God
- Conscience tells us something of God's existence and what God is
- We experience God as a sovereign judge and eternal witness
- 'I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.'
- Conscience has ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY
- Guilt is being judged by God
- We feel shame before God
- 'I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.'
- We experience God as a sovereign judge and eternal witness
- voice of God within
- To follow conscience is to follow God's divine law
- FREUD:IRRATIONAL ASPECT OF SUPEREGO
- superego develops from 5 years old onwards
- Internalises and reflects on dissaproval of others
- Forbids certain actions and provides a sense of guilt
- Conscience should not be followed
- NO AUTHORITY
- Conscience should not be followed
- Internalised voice of external authorities
- Forbids certain actions and provides a sense of guilt
- Internalises and reflects on dissaproval of others
- Mind
- Ego: Rational
- Id: physical and emotional needs
- Eros: life
- Thanatos:death instinct
- Superego: Controlling, restraining
- WE think we make free decisions but we are controlled subconsciously
- superego develops from 5 years old onwards
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- Cor= God has written his law on our hearts - HEBREW THINKING
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