Conscience (AQA A-Level Religious Studies): Flashcards
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Fletcher: conscience as possession or action?
Fletcher: conscience as possession or action?
Action (verb), not possession (noun)
Fletcher: prospective or retrospective?
Fletcher: prospective or retrospective?
Prospective - looks forward, not backwards
Fletcher: what does conscience choose?
Fletcher: what does conscience choose?
What agape-love demands in the situation
Augustine: what must support conscience?
Augustine: what must support conscience?
Grace (a gift from God)
Augustine: what do good actions require?
Augustine: what do good actions require?
Right intention (love of God, not guilt/approval)
Aquinas: conscience as what?
Aquinas: conscience as what?
Reason identifying what is rational
Aquinas: is conscience infallible?
Aquinas: is conscience infallible?
No, not infallible and can make mistakes
Fromm's two types of conscience
Fromm's two types of conscience
Authoritarian and humanistic
Freud: thanatos and eros are?
Freud: thanatos and eros are?
Destructive impulses and sexual drives
Durkheim: collective conscience means?
Durkheim: collective conscience means?
Acts are bad because society disapproves of them