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Conscience - Coggle Diagram
Conscience
Augustine
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“men see the moral rules written in the book of light which is called truth from which all laws are copied”
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Scientific explanations
Freud
The conscience is a manifestation of the Oedipal trauma of childhood, the internalisation of instruction. It is primarily the superego, which works with the ego to control the id
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Jung
Jung's conscience is similar to Freud's in that it forms during early childhood. However, it differs in that it is more moralistic, and requires a honing towards some kind of eudaimonic state, via reconciliation with the shadow as opposed to the simple determinism of Freud
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Aquinas
Conscience does not come directly from God, but is instead the voice of reason gifted to us by God to help interpret actual laws given by God
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two types of ignorance - lack of total knowledge, vs purposefully ignoring truth
Newman
the moral argument - guilt from the conscience implies that we are given guilt by something - this could be God?
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Butler
Something with indeterminate nature, gifted from God, that distinguishes us from the animal kingdom
the conscience exists as a pyramid, with self love and benevolence at the bottom (aka generosity and desire to care for the self) and self-reflection at the top, enabled by the other two, which allows moral development and decision making
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