Conscience - quotes

Question 1

Butler’s conscience

Answer 1

‘There is a principle of reflection in men by which they distinguish between approval and disapproval of their own actions… this principle in man… is conscience’
- Butler, Human Nature and Other Sermons

Question 2

Fletcher’s conscience

Answer 2

‘“Conscience” is merely a word for out attempts to make decisions creatively, constructively, fittingly.’
- Fletcher, Situation Ethics

Question 3

Freud’s conscience

Answer 3

‘the superego is the internalization of external parental authority’

‘the part that judges and threatens with punishment’

• Langston, Conscience and Other Virtues

Question 4

Schleiermacher’s conscience

Answer 4

‘the voice of God within’

‘an original revelation of God’

• Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith

Question 5

Aquinas - reason

Answer 5

‘Reason in man is rather like God in the world.’

• Aquinas, De Regno