Conscience

Question 1

Who are four key secular ethicists who come up with theories about the Conscience?

Answer 1

Kohlberg
Freud
Durkheim
Fromm

Question 2

How did Kohlberg view the conscience?

Question 3

What are Kohlberg’s three levels of moral development?

Question 4

What are the two stages in the pre conventional level?

Question 5

What are the two stages in the conventional level?

Question 6

What are the two stages in the post-conventional level?

Question 7

What was the Heinz dilemma?

Question 8

Why would Hume reject Kohlberg’s understanding of conscience?

Question 9

How did Freud view the conscience?

Question 10

What are the 3 aspects of the mind according to Freud?

Question 11

What is the Id?

Question 12

What is the ego?

Question 13

What is the super ego?

Question 14

How is conscience part of the super ego?

Question 15

What is a problem people have with Freud’s view?

Question 16

How did Durkheim view the conscience?

Question 17

How did Durkheim view God?

Question 18

What did Durkheim mean when he saw conscience as collective?

Question 19

What did Durkheim mean when he saw conscience as a survival mechanism?

Question 20

What is a problem people have with Durkheim’s view?

Question 21

How did Fromm view the conscience?

Question 22

What influenced Fromm’s view of the conscience?

Question 23

What is the authoritarian conscience?

Question 24

What is the humanistic conscience

Question 25

What is a problem with the authoritarian conscience?

Question 26

Who are four key religious ethicists who come up with theories about the Conscience?

Answer 26

- Schleiermacher - Aquinas - Butler - Fletcher

Question 27

How did Schleiermacher view the conscience?

Question 28

What are issues with Schleiermacher's view of the conscience?

Question 29

How did Aquinas view the conscience?

Question 30

For Aquinas, conscience was not the innate voice of God but..

Question 31

What is the synderesis rule and it's implication for Aquinas' key ideas?

Question 32

According to Aquinas, What are the two aspects of conscience?

Question 33

Aquinas believed that conscience could be mistaken through ignorance, what are the two types of ignorance Aquinas distinguished between?

Question 34

What is vincible ignorance?

Question 35

What is invincible ignorance?

Question 36

What was Aquinas' view on the role of conscience as a decision maker?

Question 37

What is a problem with Aquinas' approach?

Question 38

How did Joseph Butler view the consicience?

Question 39

Butler saw conscience as an autonomous judge - what does this mean?

Question 40

Why did Butler not think conscience being mistaken was a problem?

Question 41

What are two problems with Butler's ideas?

Question 42

Give a simple summary of Butler's hierarchical view of the human psyche

Question 43

Finish the quote - Butler

Question 44

How did Fletcher view the conscience?

Question 45

Finish the quote - Fletcher

Question 46

Group theories of the conscience into these groups: Society Linked Reason Based Voice of God Psychological Situationists

Answer 46

Situationist

Question 47

For society linked approaches, how does the conscience respond the issue of telling lies and breaking promises?

Question 48

For reason based approaches, how does the conscience respond the issue of telling lies and breaking promises?

Question 49

For 'voice of god' approaches, how does the conscience respond the issue of telling lies and breaking promises?

Question 50

For psychological approaches, how does the conscience respond the issue of telling lies and breaking promises?

Question 51

For situationist approaches, how does the conscience respond the issue of telling lies and breaking promises?

Question 52

For society linked approaches, how does the conscience respond the issue of adultery?

Question 53

For reason based approaches, how does the conscience respond the issue of adultery?

Question 54

For voice of god approaches, how does the conscience respond the issue of adultery?

Question 55

For psychological approaches, how does the conscience respond the issue of adultery?

Question 56

For situationist approaches, how does the conscience respond the issue of adultery?

Question 57

For society linked approaches, what is the value of the conscience as a moral guide?

Question 58

For reason based approaches, what is the value of the conscience as a moral guide?

Question 59

For voice of god approaches, what is the value of the conscience as a moral guide?

Question 60

For psychological approaches, what is the value of the conscience as a moral guide?

Question 61

For situationist approaches, what is the value of the conscience as a moral guide?

Question 62

What is the fundamental issue of the conscience?

Question 63

What could the fundamental issue of conscience be resolved - and it's potential issues?