Conscience Key Words

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Autonomous
Self-directing, independent, self-governing.
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Authoritarian Conscience
In Fromm's view, the sense of guilt individuals can feel out of fear of being rejected by society, society is based on obedience to rules and conformity to norms.
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Conscientia
In Aquinas' system, conscientia applies the first principles of synderesis to particular situations. It is the experience of realising that what the individual is about to do is good or evil, right or wrong.
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Eros
In Freud's analysis of the mind, eros is the life instinct/the instinct for sexual gratification.
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Humanistic Conscience
In Durkheim's view, the aspect of the conscience that has an intuitive knowledge of what is human an inhuman: of what makes like flourish and what destroys it. A common response of the humanistic conscience is disobedience which brings flourishing.
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Innate (conscience)
Inborn conscience-originating in the mind.
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Super-ego
In Freud's thought that part of the mind which controls the instincts that can damage society; it manifests through feelings of guilt and remorse.
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Synderesis
In Aquinas' system, synderesis is in the rational part of human agents- a national disposition of the human mind by which we apprehend without inquiry the basic principles of behaviour. The synderesis rule is: 'good is to be done and evil avoided.'
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Thanatos
In Freud's analysis of the mind, the instinct for aggression, violence and death.
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In Fromm's view, the sense of guilt individuals can feel out of fear of being rejected by society, society is based on obedience to rules and conformity to norms.

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In Aquinas' system, conscientia applies the first principles of synderesis to particular situations. It is the experience of realising that what the individual is about to do is good or evil, right or wrong.

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In Freud's analysis of the mind, eros is the life instinct/the instinct for sexual gratification.

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In Durkheim's view, the aspect of the conscience that has an intuitive knowledge of what is human an inhuman: of what makes like flourish and what destroys it. A common response of the humanistic conscience is disobedience which brings flourishing.

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