Conscience
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- Created on: 09-09-13 14:49
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- Conscience
- what is it?
- our moral sense of what is right and wrong
- prompts people in different directions
- where does it come from?
- 2. Religious views:
- God given
- implied that if we follow it everyone can follow the divine law
- Aquinas
- people aim for the good and avoid the bad
- bad = sin and falling short of God
- people aim for the good and avoid the bad
- Butler
- distinguishes humans from animals
- God given guide to right conduct
- God given
- 1. Secular views:
- freud
- construct of the mind- guilt
- Piaget and Kohlberg
- conscience develops as we grow
- freud
- 2. Religious views:
- what is its function in ethical decision making?
- moral guide
- 1. like following the law of God.
- is it reliable? morals can change
- basis of morals
- can develop them
- can provide a balanced non bias opinion
- moral guide
- what is it?
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