CONSCIENCE Flashcards
this is judging the action to do what is good and avoid evil
conscience
what is the concept of conscience
- it is not theoretical
- shows humans what their nature is
- conscience is spontaneous
general divisions of conscience
- antecedent conscience
- consequent conscience
conscience when the deed is already done
Consequent conscience
conscience before the action is done
antecedent conscience
concept of conscience
- right conscience
- erroneous conscience
2 types of erroneous conscience
- vincibly erroneous
- invincibly erroneous
this erroneous is lack of awareness of the possibility of error
Invincibly erroneous
the moral judgement disagrees with the objective norm of the morality
Erroneous conscience
aware of being careless and irresponsible
vincibly erroneous
other kinds of erroneous conscience
- perplexed
- lax
- scrupulous
judges something to be sinful when it is not
scrupulous conscience
when presented with two situations error
perplexed e. conscience
when something is unlawful but taken as lawful and very lightly
-lax e. conscience
uncertain if concerning morality of the action
- doubtful