Conscience

• ratio 


  word used by Aquinas to describe reason - something which is placed in every person as a result of being created in the image of God
• Synderesis 


  Aquinas - means to follow the good and avoid the evil, the rule that all precepts follow
• Id


  Freud = part of the mind that has instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in pleasure
• Super-ego


  Freud = uses the word to describe the part of the mind that contradicts the Id and uses internalised ideals from parents and society to make the ego behave morally
• ego


  Freud = uses this word to describe the mediation between the id and the super ego
• Conscientia 


  name Aquinas gives to the process whereby a person's reason makes moral judgement
• Vincible Ignorance


  how Aquinas describes a lack of knowledge for which a person is responsible and can be blames
• Invincible ignorance 


  how Aquinas describes for which a person is not responsible and therefore cannot be blamed
• The more you obey your conscience the more your conscience will demand of you 


  C.S. Lewis
• I have noticed my conscience for many years and I know it is more trouble and bother to me than anything else I started with 


  Mark Twain
• The torture of a bod conscience is the hell of a living soul

  John Calvin
• But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do

  Christopher Reeve
• 'The Spark of conscience was the power to distinguish good from evil"


  St. Jerome (347-420)
• Jean Piaget


  Conscience is significantly reinforced by the upbringing and influences we have in our early years