Conscience Summary

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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

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