Conscience

Question 1

Cardinal Newman

Answer 1

We feel ashamed by our conscience because we’re hearing God’s voice speaking to us

Question 2

St Jerome

Answer 2

Our “spark of conscience”, or ability to distinguish good from evil, is what makes us unique from other parts of God’s creation

Question 3

Zygmunt Bauman

Answer 3

• Conscience is a sort of code we follow to distinguish between good and evil
• There is tension between our individual conscience and societal pressures
• The Holocaust is simply an example of shaky foundations in moral conscience, for example.
• “Liquid modernity” (describing how our society is always changing) means that moral frameworks don’t work

Question 4

Bishop Butler

Answer 4

Conscience is supreme and we must obey it

Question 5

Piaget

Answer 5

• When we grow up, we face a shift in nature of conscience
• This shift in conscience is from heteronomous to autonomous conscience
• An immature conscience gets guilty feelings from approval of others (discipline)
• A mature conscience forms its own rules

Question 6

Yuval Noah Hariri

Answer 6

• Sapiens: a brief history of mankind
• We have a shared conscience that functions to deal with large groups of people
• If you believe wholly as a group in a creator God, it creates order for a big group of people