Conscience, Adultery

Question 1

Adultery

Answer 1

Married person engages in sexual intercourse with someone who’s not their spouse

Question 2

Aquinas

Answer 2

Adultery = misuse of con - mistaken as no intention to do wrong - apparent good - gen. Lack of knowledge of trie facts of case lead to con making wrong decision - not wrong for person to follow con.
E.g. man marries widow and has sex, only to find out her husband was alive
Con. Cleared him to have sex with her - mistaken

Question 3

Fletcher

Answer 3

‘Sacrificial adultery’ example justifies action as con = verb - an action
Mrs Begmeier = picked up by Russian army while getting food for children, unable to get word to children and taken to prison camp in ukraine- her husband was captured and taken to wales when returned to Berlin spent weeks getting children, mothers whereabouts still mystery.
Could only leave if either ill or pregnant, has guard impregnate her so she could go to fam and raised child like normal
Carried out in a specific situation, guided by agape and use of reason,in this case most loving = return to fam

Diff approaches to con show its undefinable as there’s so many diff approaches - subjective

Question 4

Sociological perspective

Answer 4

Durkheim - god = mechanism by which socs rules are enforced
Con is social conditioning - sanctions that a group bear on an Ind
God is a projection of socs powers
Adultery bad in view of coll con as Soc disapproves of it
Auth of god declined as force in coll con so religion has lost much of its auth
Marriage today = social construct not religious
But adultery = sin against gods laws - reason to terminate marriage contract

Question 5

Freud

Answer 5

To keep instinctive drives in check through laws to make prohibiting acts e.g. murder, rape and adultery creates a paradox - created civilisation to protect ourselves from unhappiness but became our greatest source of unhappiness - frustrates our instinctive drives for killing and sexual gratification