Conscience

Question 1

What is ‘synderesis’?

Answer 1

for Aquinas, this means to follow the good and avoid the evil, the rule that all precepts follow

Question 2

What is the id, according to Freud?

Answer 2

this is the part of the mind which acts on impulses, seeking satisfaction and pleasure

Question 3

What is the super-ego, according to Freud?

Answer 3

this is the part of the mind that contradicts the id, these are the ideas internalised from parents and society to make the moral behaviour

Question 4

Ego

Answer 4

Freud uses this word to describe the mediation between the id and the super-ego

Question 5

What is vincible ignorance?

Answer 5

this is how Aquinas describes a lack of knowledge from which a person is responsible and can be blamed

Question 6

Who said that he would drink to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards?

Answer 6

John Henry Newman

Question 7

What role did Freud believe God played in the conscience?

Answer 7

no role at all - Freud believed God was imaginary

Question 8

Give an example of a thinker who, unlike Aquinas believed that the conscience was the voice of God within us

Answer 8

• Butler
• Newman

Question 9

Ratio

Answer 9

the word used by Aquinas to describe reason, something which is placed in every person as a result of their being created in the image of God

Question 10

Conscientia

Answer 10

this is the name Aquinas gives to the process whereby a person’s reason makes moral judgements

Question 11

Invincible Ignorance

Answer 11

this is how Aquinas describes a lack of knowledge for which a person is not responsible, and cannot be blamed