Means 'to know with'. St Paul uses it to explain the human ability to know and choose what is good. He seems to suggest a moral consciousness which compares an action to a standard.
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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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Conscientia
Aquinas called this the actual ethical judgement or decision a person made.
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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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Benevolence
Butler saw this as wanting the well-being of others.
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Super-ego
Freud's idea is that the super-ego reinforces ideas of correct behaviour implanted in us when we are young.
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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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Card 2
Front
Means 'to know with'. St Paul uses it to explain the human ability to know and choose what is good. He seems to suggest a moral consciousness which compares an action to a standard.
Back
Syneidesis
Card 3
Front
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.
Back
Card 4
Front
Aquinas called this the actual ethical judgement or decision a person made.
Back
Card 5
Front
Butler thought of this as wanting the well-being of self or enlightened self-interest, not selfishness.
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