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CONSCIENCE ((((Rational view of the conscience, States that the conscience…
CONSCIENCE
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RECTA RATIO: right reason, which regards virtue as desirable in itself - a God given ability to reason
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Conscience can ‘err vincibly’ or ‘err invincibly’, that means that if you do something wrong it is because you lack knowledge of is that action was bad. ‘Err vincibly’ is if you chose not to know. ‘Err invincibly’ is if you genuinely didn't know.
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EGO: the conscious self, what is viewed by the outside world
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When the superego is formed it is influenced by society and people’s parents. It is a reaction to all the demands that a person is faced with during their life that they fail to meet.
A gap emerges between the ego. Guilt occurs when we go against our conscience and superego.
According to Freud, all psychological problems are caused by sexuality.
He states that a further source of guilt is the Oedipus Complex. When a male is young he views his father as a obstacle to his fulfilment of sexual desires as he becomes fixated on his mother. The child is fearful and jealous of his father but begins to identify and admire him.
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The human will is divided after the fall we are constantly in two minds still rational enough to know what is good but often lacking the ability to carry it out
We want two things at once - the phenomenon of ‘akrasia’ that paul refers to in the Bible and that puzzled Socrates and Aristotle ‘lord make me pure but not yet’