Butler and intuition
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 25-11-14 07:55
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- Conscience: Butler
- Introduction
- He was a church of England Bishop and theologian.
- Saw Conscience as the 'final moral decision maker.'
- Our ability to reason and rationalise makes us different from all other animals.
- This was his evidence for the existence of Conscience.
- "There is a principle of reflection in men by which they distinguish between approval and disapproval of their own actions, this principle in man is conscience."
- Humans are motivated by 2 basic principles:
- 1. Self love (only interested in our well-being).
- Conscience encourages human beings away from self love and towards the happiness and interests of others.
- 2. Benevolence (actively seeking the well-being of others).
- 1. Self love (only interested in our well-being).
- Conscience enables us to judge the rightness or wrongness of actions (Aquinas)
- This ability is given to us through our intuition and it comes forward in times of moral decision making without having to be called upon.
- Therefore, people will know right from wrong through their intuition.
- This ability is given to us through our intuition and it comes forward in times of moral decision making without having to be called upon.
- Conscience is: "Our natural guide, the guide assigned to us by the Author of our nature."
- Therefore, it is the final judge of right and wrong that must be obeyed.
- It is the ultimate and binding authority that originated from God.
- He was quick to condemn someone who believed that a wrong action was believed to be correct by their conscience.
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