Conscience Flashcards
Nietzsche 1
No right or wrong, life is ability for individual to have control so no need for conscience
Augustine
‘The book of light called truth’
Christopher reeve
‘Shut our all the noise and clutter’
Bentham
Merely inhibition to follow Greatest good a false understanding of pleasure
Newman
‘Conscience first and the pope afterwards’
‘Principle planted within us’
Marx
Life is about group not individual- uphold capitalism
Kierkegaard
‘The relationship between individual and god is the conscience’
Butler
Influenced by benevolence, guide to follow human nature
GE Moore
‘Innate sense or intuition’
F Hutchinson
Benevolence is natural response to suffering
Hume
‘Slave to our passions
Karl Barth
The fall
Aquinas
‘Conscience is the dictate of reason’
Synderesis; conscientia
Butler v aquinas
B- must always follow conscience
A- it can be corrupted
Freud
ID- basic instinct
Ego- balance of physical and emotional needs
Super ego- restraining and controlling self