FINALS

• Conscience

  • The part of your personality that helps you determine between right and wrong and keeps you from acting upon your most basic urges and desires.
• Conscience

  • It is what makes you feel guilty when you do something bad and good when you do something kind.
• Conscience: the moral basis that helps guide prosocial behavior and leads you to behave in socially acceptable and even altruistic ways.
• Conscience: From the Latin words "cum" - with and "scientia" - knowledge, thus the meaning "with knowledge"
• Conscience: It is the proximate norm of morality because it is what directly confronts an action as good or bad.
• Conscience is a practical judgement of reason deciding upon an individual action as good to be performed or as evil to be avoided.
• Your conscious is your awareness of yourself and the world around you. It means being awake or aware. Some experts suggest that you are considered conscious of something if you are able to put it into words.
• Guilty conscience


  It is a normal human response. It's the emotional response that comes as a result of some action that we've labeled or even perceived as being "bad" or "wrong".
• Images of Conscience

  • "Our most secret core and sanctuary" where we encounter God: our heart
• Images of Conscience

  A law inscribed in our hearts by God and recognized as our own; its voice calls us "to love and do what is good and avoid evil"
• Conscience


  The part of your personality that helps you determine between right and wrong and keeps you from acting upon your most basic urges and desires
• Conscience


  What makes you feel guilty when you do something bad and good when you do something kind
• Conscience


  The moral basis that helps guide prosocial behavior and leads you to behave in socially acceptable and even altruistic ways
• Conscience


  From the Latin words "cum" (with) and "scientia" (knowledge), thus the meaning "with knowledge"
• Conscience

  The proximate norm of morality because it is what directly confronts an action as good or bad
• Conscience

  A practical judgment of reason deciding upon an individual action as good to be performed or as evil to be avoided
• Conscious

  Your awareness of yourself and the world around you
• Conscious

  Being awake and aware
• You are considered conscious of something if you are able to put it into words
• Guilty conscience


  The emotional response that comes as a result of some action that we've labeled, or even perceived, as being "bad" or "wrong"
• Conscious

  Awake or aware
• Images of conscience

  • "Our most secret core and sanctuary" where we encounter God; our heart
  • A law inscribed in our hearts by God and recognized as our own; its voice calls us "to love and do what is good and avoid evil"
  • Our moral compass that directs us to good or evil
  • Our moral sensory faculty: capacity to see, feel, hear, smell, and touch the good; moral appetite us as we judge moral questions (whole person includes intellect, feeling, imagination, and will)
• '"In the depths of his or her conscience, the human person detects a law which she or he does not impose upon themselves, but which holds them to obedience. Always summoning them to love good and avoid evil, the voice of conscience when necessary, speaks to their heart: do this, shun that."'
• '"For man has in his heart a law written by God; to obey it is the very dignity of man; according to it he will be judged. Conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of a man. There he is alone with God, Whose voice echoes in his depths."'
• Synderesis


  Discovers very basic moral principles; the use of right reason by which we learn basic moral principles and understand that we have to do good and avoid evil
• Conscientia (conscience)


  Practical reason which tells us what to do in particular situations
• Conscience (Bonaventure and great mystics)

  The scintilla animae, the spark of the soul; the peak of the soul where man encounters God and is at least accessible to the contamination of sin
• Conscience in the process of time

  1. Antecedent: Judgment on morality of action and obligation to perform or omit is passed before action is translated to reality

  2. Concomitant: During the action; refers to one's actual awareness of being morally responsible for the goodness and the badness of the particular act while one is doing it

  3. Consequent: if it evaluates an act already done or omitted
• Antecedent conscience


  Helps us to sort out the data and examine the morality of an act before we perform it; commands, exhorts, permits or forbids
• Concomitant conscience


  One's actual awareness of being morally responsible for the goodness and the badness of the particular act while one is doing it
• Consequent conscience


  The process of looking back to review and evaluate the morality of what we have done; approves, excuses, reproves or accuses
• Categories of conscience

  • True conscience
  • False conscience
  • Certain conscience
  • Doubtful conscience
• True conscience


  When it deduces correctly from the principle that the act is lawful, or it conforms to what is objectively right
• False conscience


  When it decides from false principles which considered as true that something which is unlawful
• Types of false conscience

  • Scrupulous conscience
  • Perplexed conscience
  • Lax conscience
  • Pharisaical conscience
• Scrupulous conscience


  One that for little or no reason judges an act to be morally evil when it is not, or exaggerates the gravity of sin, or sees sin where it does not exist
• Perplexed conscience


  Judges wrongly that sin is committed both in the performance or omission of an act; one fears that sin is committed whether it was actually done or not
• Lax conscience


  Judges on insufficient ground that there is no sin in the act, or that the sin is not grave as it is, or it is insensitive to a moral obligation in a particular area
• Pharisaical conscience


  Minimizes grave sins but maximizes small ones
• Certain conscience


  When without any prudent fear or error, it decides that the act is either lawful or unlawful, or if the person has no doubt about the correctness of his/her judgment