Conscience AO2

Question 1

Christopher Reeve

Answer 1

“if we shut out all the noise and clatter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do”

Question 2

St Paul

Answer 2

‘what the law requires is written in the human heart’

‘whatever is not from faith is sin’

Question 3

St Jerome

Answer 3

‘scintilla conscientia’= spark of morality

Question 4

Augustine

Answer 4

saw conscience as the voice of GOd speaking to us from within, law of God is what our hearts use for moral decisions

Question 5

John Henry Newman

Answer 5

“I shall drink to the pope, if you please- still to conscience first and the Pope afterwards’

Question 6

Joseph Butler

Answer 6

no

Question 7

Fletcher

Answer 7

• No conscience, it is a verb: “merely a word for our attempts to make decisions creatively, constructively, fittingly’
• Function, not as a faculty

Question 8

Piaget

Answer 8

• Prior to age 11 we have ‘heteronymous morality where ‘right conduct’ is enforced by expectation of punishment and reward
• As our ability to think abstractly develops, we develop a more ‘autonomous’ morality, which draws on social norms and an appreciation of consequences, but it is autonomous because we now have the cognitive ability to think through the consequences ourselves

Question 9

Schleirmacher

Answer 9

logical contradiction in a perfect world that can go wrong

Question 10

Aquinas feelings

Answer 10

view does not take into consideration feelings making it less realistic to use our reasoning particularly in the issue of medical and sexual ethics