Conscience Flashcards
natural law
Aquinas
Conscience is the use of syderesis and conscientia
we use god-given ratio to consciously use sydersis and conscientia
the synderesis rule
invinsible and vincible ignorance
guilt is when our ratio knows that something we have done is bad
psychological
Freud
Conscience is just the way we have been socialised
3 parts of the brain: ID, EGO and SUPEREGO -explain
Learn to control our conscience through 5 psycho sexual stages of development
guilt is going against super-ego
Joeseph Butler
Conscience is the voice of God within us and is the divine authority
conscience cannot be wrong as it is Gods will
We feel guilt when going against conscience and moral satifaction when alligning with it - motivates us to follow divine authority within us
Newman
Conscience is Gods moral voice within us that takes ultimate authority
it is a direct communication with God
Conscience must be trained with religious study, prayer and reflection
Piaget
Conscience develops with age and cognitive ability
heteronomous morality: 5-10 - morality is based on obedience and punishment
Autonomous morality: 10+
morality becomes internalised and children start to apply reason to judge
developmental
Fromm
Conscience stems from our fear of societal rejection
Authoritarian conscience: from figures of authority - we feel guilt when we go against this
Humanistic conscience: our own values and integrity
