conscience scholars

Question 1

named scholars

Answer 1

aquinas
freud

Question 2

piaget

Answer 2

conscience develops before the age of ten, based on our environment and upbringing

Question 3

kohlberg

Answer 3

people behave in a socially acceptable way because they are told to do so by authority figures and to gain approval.
through life you go through stages- gain approval, follow the law, care for others, respect universal principles, respect demands of an individual conscience. most will not get past the two last stages

Question 4

fromm

Answer 4

originally argued that conscience is pre-determined by socio-economic forces and we have no control, we are conditioned. free will is an illusion.
later changed to argue that conscience allows humans to rise above the alienation of modern society

Question 5

foucault

Answer 5

conscience acts to condemn the individual, not to liberate

Question 6

richard rorty

Answer 6

no such thing as a set of universal moral values, so conscience is just a person’s guilt

Question 7

bentham

Answer 7

interferes with the greatest good for the greatest number, it is a product of false misunderstanding of what pleasure is

Question 8

newman

Answer 8

a stern monitor of one’s behaviour, the literal voice of god, ‘sacred in its authority’, always right, must be followed