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Conscience
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- 1Lawrence KohlbergDefined 3 levels of moral development
- pre-conventional level (punishment and obedience)
- conventional level (inter-personal relationships)
- post-conventional level (individualised conscience and feeling of guilt) - 2Sigmund Freud- described conscience as a 'psychological phenomenon'
- distinguished between the id, the the ego and the super-ego
- the conscience is an aspect of the super-ego - 3Durkheim- the conscience is social conditioning
- he put forward the idea of a collective conscience (the totality of beliefs of the average citizen)
- evolutionary perspective on the conscience - 4Erich FrommDistinguished between 2 types of conscience:
- authoritarian conscience (the aspect of the conscience that represents the internalised voice of a disapproving society that we are afraid to disobey)
- humanistic conscience (the aspect of the conscience that has an intuitive knowledge of what is human and what is inhuman) - 5St Paul'a witness to the requirements of the law'
- 6St Augustine'in whose conscience God does not speak?'
- 7St Thomas aquinas- he believed that the conscience was the voice of God
- religious - 8Butler-
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- A level Religious Studies Flashcards on Conscience, created by Charlotte Johnson on 30/01/2019.
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