Conscience Key Words

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Authoritarian Conscience.
Our sense of moral right and wrong formed in us by authority figures whom we want to obey.
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Benevolence.
Butler saw this as wanting the well-being of others.
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Conscience.
Our sense of moral right and wrong.
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Conscientia.
The actual judgement or decision a person makes which leads to a particular course of action based on those principles
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Self-love
Butler thought of this as wanting the well-being of self or enlightened self-interest, not selfishness.
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Super-ego
Freud’s idea is that the super-ego reinforces ideas of correct behaviour implanted in us when we were young.
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Synderesis
Synderesis: Aquinas’ idea of what he termed ‘right’ reason by which a person acquires knowledge of basic moral principles and understands that it is important to do good and avoid evil.
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Butler saw this as wanting the well-being of others.

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Benevolence.

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Our sense of moral right and wrong.

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Card 4

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The actual judgement or decision a person makes which leads to a particular course of action based on those principles

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Card 5

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Butler thought of this as wanting the well-being of self or enlightened self-interest, not selfishness.

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