Non Religious Ideas - Durkheim Flashcards
Humanistic conscience
Aspect of con that has intuitive knowledge of what’s human and inhuman,of what makes life flourish and destroyed it
God
Useful idea in society as gives us moral obligation to obey socs standards, con part of out loyalty to Soc and fear of judge from others
Collective and evolutionary con
Collective: beliefs agreed on by those in same Soc, acts are bad because society disapproves of it and binds individuals together, creating social cohesion
Evolutionary: Soc to grow stronger, its a survival mechanism developed by people sharing the same moral values
Con exists as social and evolutionary phenomena and good con = Soc to survive
‘The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a soc’
Conscience is social conditioning - informs of identify and belonging sanctions that group bring to in
God = Soc (doesn’t exist but useful idea) projection of socs powers and belief in god gives inds moral obligation to obey socs commands
Con = perception of loyalty to Soc when ind lacks con = socially confused ASCH LINE EXP
Evaluation
STRENGTHS:
Naturally unites Soc as members have shared values which con. Enforces
Not faith based
WEAKNESSES:
If regard coll. con. Of a asoc as ‘evil’ (nazi germany) then you wont approve of mechanism by which socs values are sustained
If role of con = challenge existing values then coll. con. = no value
Coll. Con go against norms of religion and inds
