Conscience Flashcards
Who criticises butler and says what?
Jack Mahoney in “seeking the spirit” and states “ when I say “my conscience tells me” all I am really saying is I think”
Quote Joseph butler
In his book “analogy of religion to the constitution and course of nature” he states that the conscience “magisterially exerts itself spontaneously without being consulted”
Who says “if, as is the case, we feel responsibility, are ashamed, are frightened, at transgressing voice of god
John Henry Newman in “the grammar of assent”
Who described the conscience as the “application of knowledge to activity” through the two ideas of conscienta and synderesis
Thomas aquinas in summa theologica
Who criticises aquinas claims on the conscience
Judith butler states it is an impossible step from a moral principle to an action
Quote sigmund Freud
The conscience is most clearly connected with the sense of guilt we feel when we go against our conscience
Who says a guilty conscience is a result of displeasing authority and if that authority is god then the fear of being rejected will have a powerful influence on an individual
Erich Fromm in man for himself
Quote from man for himself showing humanistic authority
Man is the only creature endowed with conscience
Who states there are two types of conscience heteronomous and autonomous morality
Jean Piaget
Who criticises jean Piaget
Lawerence kohl berg stating it was too simplistic
