Butler
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- Joseph Butler Conscience
- Butler's background
- Anglican bishop
- Defined conscience as
- A faculty of reflection
- Conscience is a faculty that separates humans from other sentient beings
- Part of a process that humans have - they becomes aware of their own situation
- Other creatures do not have conscious awareness
- They exist but they do not try to understand
- From humans reflectivee nature - conscience develops
- Crucially influenced by Aristotle and Aquinas
- Conscience the voice of God within
- Selfish
- Golden Rule: 'In everything do to others as you would have them do to you' (Matthew: 7:12)
- To do this you have to love & respect yourself
- Transferred to others
- This respect for humanity - heart of Butler's Rolls Sermons
- To do this you have to love & respect yourself
- The Rolls Sermons
- Written for opening of the law courts
- Butler preaching to lawyers hearing criminal cases
- Criminals have no conscience
- No intuitive sense of their own worth
- Criminals do not love themselves
- Why they commit crime
- No respectful themselves NONE for others
- Instil self-respect in yourself - become truly one of God's people
- Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature
- Clear link between God, nature & morality
- 1. God has created the natural order
- 2. Moral sense is embedded in all humans
- Innate moral sense is conscience
- Moral sense fails for criminals
- They have allowed their conscience to be degraded by degrading themselves
- They have low self-esteem
- They have allowed their conscience to be degraded by degrading themselves
- There is 'great wickedness' within the human race
- Criminals magnify this wickedness
- There is a struggle in every human
- Between conscience & passions
- These passions can never be fulfilled
- Desire to fulfil them - leads to criminality and evil acts
- Solution: live a disciplined and moral life
- Conscience the guide to this
- These passions can never be fulfilled
- Between conscience & passions
- Clear link between God, nature & morality
- Butler's background
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