conscience Flashcards
ratio
word by aquinas to describe reason
placed in everyone by god
synderesis
means to follow good and avoid evil
vincible ignorance
how aquinas describes a lack of knowledge for which a person is responsible
invisible ignorance
for aquinas lack that a person is not responsible for
conscientias
aquinas defines it as the process whereby a persons reason make moral judgment
aquinas 3 features of consciousness to follow moral law
- witness
- bind and incite
- accuse, torment and rebuke
what did st jerome think the spark of conscience was
the power to distinguish good from evil
what did aqunias believe ratio did
distinguish humans from animals
to aquinas ratio is
a divine gift from god
what did martin luther king say in his speech
that people should act according to their consciousness even when the action is disliked or dangerous
what did pauls letters romans 1:20 suggest
that we can move our knowledge from this world to knowledge of the eternal world
what did zigmunt bauman say
morality may manifest itself in insubordination towards socially upheld principles and in an action openly defying social solidarity and consensus
what did hannah arendt argue when writing about the holocaust
when the norms of society become profoundly immoral you must reject them
what did aqunias think we both have which is shown in the garden of eden
synderesis and sensuality
what did newman say about moral responsibility
you should never surrender your moral responsibility to someone else
what does Aquinas not consider that influences conscience
moral decision making
shame
guilt
regret
freuds psychosexual development
- oral
- anal
- phallic
- latency
- genital
unconscious mind
thoughts and feelings
preconscious mind
memories not readily available but accessible
conscious mind
thoughts a person currently has ,which the unconscious cannot access
the ID
present from birth dark desires we want
the ego
controls the id
damands social interaction and makes a good conscience
super-ego
standards from social pressures
if super-ego dominates the ego and can lead to a person acting to please
later physchologists developed saying what
we have a mature and immature dimension
both freud and aqunias believe gulit is linked to
desire
Augustine believed conscience is
the intuitive voice of god directing people to gods law in their hearts
