The Conscience
- Created by: mrahman
- Created on: 10-05-17 14:00
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- The Conscience
- St Thomas Aquinas
- faculty (reason) that can be used to become aware of synderesis
- Synderesis- God given an innate awareness of good and evil, can't be mistaken
- choices made from synderesis which leads to action
- Synderesis- God given an innate awareness of good and evil, can't be mistaken
- Synderesis- God given an innate awareness of good and evil, can't be mistaken
- choices made from synderesis which leads to action
- Conscientia
- application
- Prudence/ Wisdom
- Virtue needed to balance out needs of self with needs of others.
- Helps figure out synderesis
- Erring Conscience
- can make mistakes due to false information
- Pursue an apparent good not a real good
- vincible ignorance
- faculty (reason) that can be used to become aware of synderesis
- Joseph Butler
- Conscience balances out self love and benevolence
- the ability to reason, a God given component of the mind
- makes instant and correct moral judgement
- has moral authority and should be followed
- doesn't require introspection
- final arbiter of moral
- John Henry Newman
- ''I toast the Pope but I toast the conscience first''
- A principle planted in us by God
- grows and strengthens with training by learning
- grows and strengthens with training by learning
- innate but requires guidance
- Counterfeit conscience
- fake conscience
- shaped by society
- used to justify people's own choice
- True Conscience
- stern monitor, nothing to do with desire and will
- ''the aboriginal vicar of Christ''
- St Thomas Aquinas
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