Romans 7:15 and 7:18 say that we know we should do, but we don't do it always.
Romans 2:15 says that God has engraved his law on our hearts (metaphorically, not to be taken literally), used to support the second point above.
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Immanuel Kant
We must achieve the summum bonum (the highest good), but is impossible, so God must assisst us.
There is an objective moral law that our conscience tells us to follow.
Also if we don't achieve the summum bonum in this life, we must do in another life. (life after death)
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St Thomas Aquinas
The conscience of human beings consist of right reason (built into the design of humans by God) and synderesis (our inclination of good and bad things).
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Joseph Butler
Conscience is a God-given intuitive knowledge (innate knowledge), this authority obviously points to God.
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Cardinal John Newman
We have an inate knowledge and in 'inner voice' which produces guilt and shame when we do the opposite of what we want to do or not.
Our conscience is God's voice within us which proves that this authority points to God.
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H P Owen
A moral law giver must have wrote, or brought into existence, the moral law or code that we have.
This could be God, or Aristotle's concept of a divine being which cannot interact with the world.
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Dom Trethowan
Morality is linked with values.
Each person has value.
This is the authority from God.
God-given.
Gives an awareness of God.
Supports H P Owem's argument that laws are from from self-explanatory.
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