Conscience Summary
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- Created on: 22-03-18 08:34
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- Conscience
- Aquinas
- Practica Ratio: Reason in practice
- Synderesis: The god-given inclination to do good and avoid evil, a desire which is universal
- Conscienta: The intellectual process of forming our particular moral judgements
- Vincible Ignorance: Ignorance which we could easily overcome and for which we are to blame for
- "We punish a man for his ignorance if he is considered responsible for it" Nicomachean Ethics Book III
- Invincible Ignorance: Ignorance which cannot be overcome and for which we cannot be blamed for
- Examples would include Mental incapacity and the ignorance of youth
- Ratio: reason placed in every person as a result of being made in the image of God
- Freud
- Super-ego: The internalized voice of authority, which aspires to morality
- Id: The basic instincts and drive for pleasure - food, conflict, sex etc.
- A newborn child is entirely Id orientated
- The Libido is part of the Id: the sexual drive we have as physical beings
- Psycho sexual development is where the child develops mediation for all three aspects of the mind, not just the Id and Libido
- The Oedipus Complex: Freud's notion that boys are subconscious to ideas of killing their father having sexual relations with their mother
- Ego: The idea of the rational self, capable of exercising mediation between the Id and Superego
- The concept of God and religion is an error, based on our own requirements
- Aquinas
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