Saint Augustine of Hippo Conscience
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- Saint Augustine of Hippo Conscience
- Heavily influenced by Platonism
- There is only one God
- God was and is the source of all goodness
- THUS there can only be one virtue
- All supposed virtues (goodness and justice) just aspects of virtue - which is God
- What binds the virtues to one virtue was divine love
- THUS there can only be one virtue
- God was and is the source of all goodness
- Augustine believed:
- When God's love and moral virtue revealed humans experience their own inadequacy
- Imagine: playing a sport you love and are good at
- Suddenly an international athlete joins game
- Quickly realise what you thought was good is ordinary
- Same after experiencing God
- God's love and virtue is perfect
- Any divine experience will reveal inadequacies of being human
- Show our inability to do anything about it
- God's love and virtue is perfect
- Same after experiencing God
- Quickly realise what you thought was good is ordinary
- Suddenly an international athlete joins game
- “Men see the moral rules written in a book of light which is called Truth from which all laws are copied.”
- Profound effect on later medieval writers
- 1. Make the conscience the most important element of moral decision making
- Followers of Augustine argued -the conscience is more important than moral teachings of the Church
- Luther started life as Augustinian monk
- Broke with the Roman C Church
- Arguing that his conscience wouldn't allow him to accept the teachings of the pope
- Broke with the Roman C Church
- Other writers have placed the conscience love the teachings of the bIble
- Late 18th and 19th century Christians wrestled issue of slavery
- St. Paul his letter to Philemon supported the institution of slavery
- William Wilberforce struggled with this message - as he believed in the authority of Scripture
- 1. Make the conscience the most important element of moral decision making
- Christians today
- Desmond Tutu - wrestled between their conscience and biblical condemnations of gay acts
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