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
passes judgement without fear of error
certain conscience
what is lines of action
how to act or to handle diff conscience
line of action for vincibly E.
remove his or her erroneous state by searching the truth
– postpone the action if cannot be done
line of action for perplexed
- postpone
- choose lesser evil
- choose any of two
line of action for scrupulous
- prayer and trust God
- obey principles
line of action for doubtful
- postpone
- make a presumption towards the lesser evil
binding force of conscience
- must be obeyed
- must not be obeyed
- must not be obeyed until clarification
Must be obeyed
- certain
- invincibly
- right conscience
- unaware lax
must not be obeyed
- aware lax
must not be obeyed until further clarification
- vincibly erroneous
- perplexed
- doubtful
4 types of conscience
- right
- erroneous (5)
- certain
- doubtful
