Conscience Flashcards
what is the conscience to aquinas
“reason making right decisions”
what did St Augustine believe of reason and how did this differ from Aquinas
St A thought reason, the intellect and the mind were all one entity while Aquinas distingue ratio as a separate thing.
evil allows us to lead to immoral reason, how?
“evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.” -St Paul
what is Conscienta for Aquinas
is an act when the knowledge gained from application of ratio to syneresis is applied.
what is vincible ignorance
someone who is vincible ignorance is blameworthy, as this ignorance is correctable.
what is invincible ignorance
a lack of knowledge for which the person is not responsible for.
strengths of Aquinas’ conscience
-acknowledges people make mistakes
agrees with Piaget that conscience is manufactured by experience
weaknesses of Aquinas’ conscience
- many different moral beliefs that go against the innate nature of the conscience
-aquinas is too optimistic about humans.
what did Karl Barth say of Aquinas’ theory
“the finite has no capacity of the infinite” - our minds cannot grasp Gods being so any reason is not divine
for aquinas the conscience makes mistakes how is this worked on
using practise and wisdom
how can Barth be criticised
Barth was too negative in denying the possibility of reason discovering any part of natural law
what did freud believe of the mind
it’s separated into 3 parts
the Id - desire
Ego - our conscious
Super ego - morality
what is the conscience for fried
it is not the voice go God was what our society wants from us
is the conscience good or bad for freud
it is not the best guide as it is internalised societal norms which may not be correct
what is the psycho sexual development
oral
anal
phallic
latency
mature
