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Conscience (Aquinas on Conscience (You have an erring conscience if you…
Conscience
Aquinas on Conscience
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Vincible ignorance you have a duty to know the full story/ ability e.g. A doctor treating a patient and give them them medication for depression but they don't realised or haven't been told fully that student has been getting medication elsewhere for there depression and if that student becomes ill that happens the doctor has with the knowledge he had and acted on it
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If they ignore not all the checks/pass medical history and the doctor isn't be carefully enough about the bigger picture - Erring conscience
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'If a mistaken reason bids a man sleep with another man's wife, to do this will be evil if based on ignorance of a divine law he ought to know; but if the misjudgement is occasioned by thinking that the woman is really his own wife, and she wants him and he wants her, then his will is free from fault.'
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Although he believed the world had been created and ordered by God he based his notion of 'Goodness' on Natural Law.
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By observing the world and its processes people can see what is meant to happen, and as such what is right. - Aristotle
In this way, Aquinas has shown how a
•ln humanity can reason right and wrong yet make wrong decisions and as such retained a degree of accountability for one's actions.
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Aquinas
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When people do bad things this is not because they are innately sinful but are simply acting as a result of being ill informed about something
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We naturally know the difference between good and bad and apply the basic moral principles to particular situations
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Jerome (347-420)
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"To feel our sinfulness when we are overcome by evil Desire or unbridled spirit or decided by shame"
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Issues to consider
Is the conscience the 'Voice of god", the "voice of our parents", The 'Voice of reason", or the "Voice of society", or something else?
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