Conscience - created from Mind Map

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What is Conscience (Introduction)

Religious

Intuitive

Innate

Guilt

Cognition

Authoritarian/Humanistic

The part of you that tells you right from wrong

Innate (something we are born with)

Intuitive (personal sense of responsibility)

Butler

Augustine

innate

Driven by 2 tendencies

People can 'blind' their conscience

Evaluation

Comes from God

Must be obeyed

Intuitive judgements

absolute authority

Could be used to justify any action

Benevolence (wishing well-being of others)

Self Love (enlightened self interest)

deceive themselves that a wrong action is right

This is more evil than the wrong action

Tells us exactly what God wants

Following conscience = happiness (we are following God

There should be absolute morals everywhere if it is God

Is it learnt/acquired?

How do we know it is God?

Voice of God

God is source of goodness

When God's love is revealed human iinadequacies are shown

Innate capacity to know right and wrong

Evaluation

tool to observe law of God within human hearts

Conscience is most important part of moral decision making

Goodness is sign of God's divine love

e.g thinking you're a good runner until an Olympian joins the race

Conscience + Gods Grace = Moral Goodness

Conscience cannot be questioned

God's voice or self-delusion?

God seems to contradict himself

John Newman

Personal sense of responsibility humans have to God

God implanted the conscience but socialisation places it in us

God and Humans work together