Conscience Flashcards
Criticisms oh butler
Self esteem should not be the basis of conscience
Optimism of human nature is unrealistic
Butler
The voice of god within
Christian golden rule
God created moral sense within - conscience
Criminals - degrade conscience so it fails them - so people should live a disciplined moral life
Newman
Impulse of nature - innate sense of right and wrong
Nature gives humans an innate awareness of god and goodness
Nurture can destroy this
Critics if Newman
Personal engagement has no objectivity
Freud
Conscience is a guilt complex Oedipus complex Id - pain/pleasure Ego - evaluates and plans - restricts desires Superego - moral conscience
Fromm
From birth - reduced to state of obedience
Authoritarian conscience
Piaget
Hetronomous morality - morality determined by others such as parents
Autonomous morality -morality determined by self
Social control and obedience to rules
Kolberg
Felt piaget was too simplistic
Greater number of stages in life where a person can stop their moral journey
Most people do not develop beyond early stages of moral maturing