Aquinas' Theological Approach To Conscience: Ignorance:

Question 1

For Aquinas, coming from faith means coming from conscience, and that means coming from the application of ?

Answer 1

Ratio.

Question 2

Vincible ignorance is a lack of knowledge for which a person can be held ?; they ought to have known better and can’t claim that “?” justifies their action.

Answer 2

Responsible.

Conscience.

Question 3

Invincible ignorance is a lack of ? for which a person isn’t ?, when a person acts to the best of their knowledge but gets it wrong.

Answer 3

Knowledge.

Responsible.

Question 4

Cardinal John Henry Newman wrote: “I shall drink to the Pope…still, to ? first”.

Answer 4

Conscience.

Question 5

Newman was suggesting that obedience to ? is more important than anything else.

Answer 5

Conscience.

Question 6

If you practice good habits and try to lean towards the ? (synderesis), your reason (?) will help you act well.

Answer 6

Good.

Ratio.

Question 7

If you try to gather knowledge to inform your decisions then your actions can’t be blameworthy (? ignorance). This is ? in operation.

Answer 7

Invincible.

Conscientia.

Question 8

Aquinas’ theological approach to conscience is provocative, challenging the notion that there’s an ? voice of ? telling us what to do. He acknowledges, pragmatically, that people make ?, but argues a person shouldn’t be blamed for a genuine mistake arising from ? ignorance.

Answer 8

Intuitive.
Morality.
Mistakes.
Invincible.

Question 9

Aquinas’ approach to conscience can be criticised for failing to take into account the ?, ?, environmental and economic pressures that affect a person’s ? decision-making.

Answer 9

Social.
Political.
Moral.