The Conscience

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  • 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
        • 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
    • 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''

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