Conscience

Question 1

What is ratio

Answer 1

Word used by Aquinas to describe reason. Placed by God

Question 2

What is synderesis:

Answer 2

To follow the good and avoid evil,

Question 3

What is ID

Answer 3

part of the mind that has instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in pleasure

Question 4

Define super ego

Answer 4

part of mind that contradicts the ID and uses ideals from parents and society to make ego behave morally

Question 5

Conscientia

Answer 5

person’s reason makes moral judgements (right action)

Question 6

Vincible ignorance

Answer 6

a lack of knowledge for which a person is responsible and can be blamed

Question 7

Invincible ignorance

Answer 7

lack of knowledge which a person is not responsible can cannot be blamed

Question 8

What is a quote that St Paul said. (Romans 2:14)

Answer 8

“There is something deep within them that echoes God’s yes or no, right and wrong”

Question 9

What does St Paul believe about conscience

Answer 9

all people know what is right and wrong because of our conscience

Question 10

What would Freud consider conscience to be an?

Answer 10

An umbrella term for various factors such as culture, environment and education

Question 11

What psychologist agreed and built upon Freud’s ideas

Answer 11

Fromm

Question 12

What does Fromm argue

Answer 12

Two consciences: authoritarian conscience and the humanistic conscience.

Question 13

What is authoritarian conscience

Answer 13

Interlaising our feelings of fear so that our inner voice becomes that of the authority

Question 14

What is humanistic conscience

Answer 14

inner voice reacting to how well we are functioning in life e.g like looking in a mirror. A higher and more developed conscience

Question 15

What can be a ‘however point’ toward Freud about proved

Answer 15

it cannot be falsified (proved right or wrong)

Question 16

Who would defend conscience being an Umbrella term

Answer 16

Freud, Fromm, Dawkins

Question 17

How can there be universal goods

Answer 17

Dawkins with desirable traits being passed down e.g no genocide or incest generally

Question 18

What does Barbara Engler talk about Freud

Answer 18

Represent a variety of different functions/ dynamics within a person

Question 19

Quote from Newman

Answer 19

“To conscience first and pope afterword’s”

Question 20

Explanation from Hannah Arendt

Answer 20

Norms of society become immoral you must reject them e.g holocaust

Question 21

Contemporary example from Fromm

Answer 21

Nazi Germany - People feel guilt if disobeying their government. Made them more weak and submissive to the Nazi party. Carried out their demands

Question 22

Quote from Cicero

Answer 22

“If conscience goes, then everything collapses around us”

Question 23

Idea from Fletcher

Answer 23

Morality is not set in stone

Question 24

Quote from Aquinas say about Synderesis not being a power in Summa Theologica

Answer 24

“It is clear that Synderesis is not a power but a natural habit”

Question 25

Prudence

Answer 25

= Wisdom