Conscience

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A level Religious Studies Flashcards on Conscience, created by Charlotte Johnson on 30/01/2019.
Charlotte Johnson
Flashcards by Charlotte Johnson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Lawrence Kohlberg Defined 3 levels of moral development - pre-conventional level (punishment and obedience) - conventional level (inter-personal relationships) - post-conventional level (individualised conscience and feeling of guilt)
Sigmund Freud - described conscience as a 'psychological phenomenon' - distinguished between the id, the the ego and the super-ego - the conscience is an aspect of the super-ego
Durkheim - the conscience is social conditioning - he put forward the idea of a collective conscience (the totality of beliefs of the average citizen) - evolutionary perspective on the conscience
Erich Fromm Distinguished between 2 types of conscience: - authoritarian conscience (the aspect of the conscience that represents the internalised voice of a disapproving society that we are afraid to disobey) - humanistic conscience (the aspect of the conscience that has an intuitive knowledge of what is human and what is inhuman)
St Paul 'a witness to the requirements of the law'
St Augustine 'in whose conscience God does not speak?'
St Thomas aquinas - he believed that the conscience was the voice of God - religious
Butler -
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