Conscience Scholars

Question 1

Aquinas

Answer 1

• Argued that conscience was a rational process by humans’ natural inclination towards good.
• “In such wise, that he who acts against his conscience always sins”

Question 2

Freud

Answer 2

• Argued that conscience was the internalised dictator of the superego
• “Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us”

Question 3

Eric Fromm

Answer 3

• Argues that conscience can be separated from it’s teleological, religious roots to create a humanitarian understanding of conscience
• “The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience”

Question 4

pivotal case study showing conscience/lack of?

Answer 4

-James burger: 2 year old victims of murder
-Bootle, Merseyside
-grim details, kicked, beaten and stoned.
-John Venables and Robert Thompson, not 10 at age of murder
“unparalleled evil and barbarity”