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Conscience
Ignorance you must follow your ratio and conscience at all times even if it lead to a wrong choice. However aquinas recognised that mistakes can be made as sometimes knowledge is incorrect
Invincible ignorance is a lack of knowledge which a person is not responsible for if the person acts in the best of their knowledge with reasonable informed information but nevertheless makes a mistaken they aren’t responsible
Vincible ignorance is a lack of knowledge for which a person can be held responsible, it is not an excuse
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Ratio is reason and ability to make moral judgements, he didn’t believe conscience was a special power or part of our mind but linked with reason.
For aquinas ratio disgtinguishes us from other animals only humans deliberate over moral matters and therefore ratio is a fundrrmental part of how humans were created (imago die) ratio helps us connect to the eternal law through divine truth
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Within every human there is synderesis within every human there is a pinciple that dirrects us towards good and away from evil. We can use reason to cultivate the habit of syndresis.
Conscientious is conscience in action it is used when ratio is used to inform synderisis and this results in acting upon your conscience to do the right thing
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Some acts can never be morally blameless because some acts may still break they law entitled to punishment
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Freud focuses on the psychosexual stages he says that phallic years (3-5/6) says that it is crucial for development of superego which said that all little boys had sexual desires for there mother
The id is enterliy unconscious part of the mind present from birth which is driven by pleasure and seeks immediate gratifications “the I want child like veruca salt”
The ego is basically because it is not socially acceptable to seek immediate gratification for all desires, children therefore learn to keep them in check. The ego mediates the desires vs social acceptability .example of the horse which is the id and the rider is the ego
The superego is the last part of human psyche to devlop[ it stores all of our interanisled moral standards of right and wrong acquired from parents and society. The superego stops us from breaking rules because of the fear of receiving punishment critisms and feeling guilt.
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He also explains how our morals are so different because they are effected overtime because of external factors
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Ignores later life experiences it means that parents can be held responsible if their children are immoral
Guilt is the internal conflict in the mind the struggle between what you desire and what you feel you should or should not do
For fried it is this inner turmoil or guilt that can lead people to do bad things it is not a consequence of wrongdoings but a case of future wrongdoings
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