Lesson 5: The Human Conscience Flashcards
This module covers the teachings of Augustine on its Subjective norm. It concludes the human conscience and introspection, types of conscience, the way of forming the human conscience, as well as the acquisition of knowledge and cultivation of charity.Furthermore, it also includes the proper understanding of the decalogue and its role in forming the conscience.
The word “conscience” derives from the Latin term?
Conscientia
Etymological meaning of “cum” and “scire”
“with knowledge”
Ancient Greek thought
already espoused its own notion of conscience called ?
Syneidesis
Involves the act of sharing
Syn
knowledge or a way of understanding things, interpreting ideas, etc.
Eidos
Is fundamentally an act of self-judgment, a
reflexive act of man which presupposes introspection.
Conscience
There is a lack of effort in judging the morality of the act, manifested in being lenient and loose, resulting in a poor sense of
what is good or evil.
Lax
Is a practical judgment enabling the person to recognize whether
the concrete act in a particular situation is good or evil. (Diaz, 2019)
Conscience
We judge a simple act to be evil, or a lesser evil to be grave resulting in an inordinate feeling of torment and guilt
for no good reason.
Scrupulous
We judge the act that is really evil as good and that which is really good or indifferent as evil.
Erroneous
Is the kind of conscience where we make a correct and moral judgment on the quality of the act. We come to judge an evil act as evil
and a good act as good.
True conscience
When the person is sure of the evilness or goodness of the
act, it is called
Certain conscience
When he/she is not sure, it is called…
Doubtful conscience
Augustine speaks of the Holy Spirit as the author of both the:
“law of fear”
and “law of love”
Written on stone and the
“law of fear”
