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    Human conscience involves making constant moral judgments about our past and future acts. It is described as an inner voice that guides us, telling us what we shouldn't do and helping us decide whether to act in a given situation. However, conscience is not infallible and can sometimes be wrong, so it should not be equated with God's voice or reduced to feelings of guilt. There are different types of conscience including right, erroneous, scrupulous, perplexed, lax, and pharisaical.

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    Human conscience involves making constant moral judgments about our past and future acts. It is described as an inner voice that guides us, telling us what we shouldn't do and helping us decide whether to act in a given situation. However, conscience is not infallible and can sometimes be wrong, so it should not be equated with God's voice or reduced to feelings of guilt. There are different types of conscience including right, erroneous, scrupulous, perplexed, lax, and pharisaical.

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    Human conscience involves making constant moral judgments about our past and future acts. It is described as an inner voice that guides us, telling us what we shouldn't do and helping us decide whether to act in a given situation. However, conscience is not infallible and can sometimes be wrong, so it should not be equated with God's voice or reduced to feelings of guilt. There are different types of conscience including right, erroneous, scrupulous, perplexed, lax, and pharisaical.

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    Human Conscience

    Everyday, we are CONSTANTLY


    MAKING MORAL JUDGMENTS
    about the acts we are about to do or
    acts we have already done
    Opinions about Conscience
    Frank A. Clark
    - American Writer & Cartoonist

    “ A man’s conscience,
    like a warning line on the
    highway, tells him what
    he SHOULDN’T DO– but
    it DOES NOT KEEP HIM
    from doing it.”
    Confucius
    - Chinese Philosopher

    “If you look into your


    own HEART, you
    find
    there, what
    is there to fear?”
    Albert Einstein
    - Icon of Modern Science

    “Never do anything
    against conscience,
    even if the
    .”
    Mahatma Gandhi
    - Advocator of Justice in India

    “ The human voice can


    never reach the distance
    that is covered by the
    small voice of
    conscience.”
    What is Conscience?
    (Gaudium et Spes 16)

    Natural “calling the person to love


    Human and to do what is good
    Capacity and to avoid evil.”

    Practical interpret and creatively


    Moral apply the moral laws TO
    Judgment PROTECT basic Human
    values
    For most Filipinos, conscience is
    understood as a kind of “inner voice”
    ( ) which guides us in
    our moral life.
    Conscience helps us whether to act or
    not to act in a given situation.
    “It is a matter between me and my
    Conscience.”
    - It is simply doing
    things “my way”
    without considering
    the good of others.

    - It denies the reality that we are all

    Conscience always has a


    social dimension
    “Conscience is God’s Voice within Us

    -We should not identify


    our Consciences with
    God’s voice.

    confined to any
    person’s conscience
    because we know
    that our conscience can
    sometimes be in error.
    Conscience is our Feeling of Guilt

    -We should not equate


    our guilty feelings with
    conscience itself.

    - By doing so, we
    reduce “conscience”
    to a “feeling”
    The notion that media’s depiction of
    CONSCIENCE AS AN EXTERNAL REALITY
    is essentially
    inaccurate

    The image created by


    media will not even
    come close to the true
    meaning of conscience.
    Reducing conscience to SIMPLY AN ACT OF PERSONAL
    DELIBERATION without any reference to any objective moral
    standard.
    St. Augustine on Conscience
    St. Augustine
    - Eagle of Hippo

    “Our lives improve only


    when we take chances–
    and the first and most
    difficult risk we can take

    .”
    Different Kinds of Conscience
    Antecedent and Consequent Conscience
    Right Conscience
    Right- judge what is
    really good as good
    and evil what is
    really evil.

    PRINCIPLE
    LAWFUL

    OBJECTIVELY RIGHT
    False or Erroneous Conscience
     When it DECIDES FROM
    FALSE PRINCIPLES
    considered as true that
    something is unlawful.
    SCRUPULOUS conscience

    PERPLEXED conscience

    LAX conscience

    PHARISAICAL conscience
    SCRUPULOUS conscience

    This conscience is a
    result of a stubborn
    character.
    PERPLEXED conscience

    Judges wrongly that sin is committed


    both in the performance or omission of
    an act. One fears that sin is committed
    whether it was actually done or not.
    LAX conscience
    Conscience that tends to follow the easy
    way and to find excuses for mistakes
    PHARISAICAL conscience
    Minimizes grave sins but maximizes
    small ones.
    Certain Conscience

    Subjective assurance
    of the lawfulness
    or unlawfulness of
    certain actions to
    be done or to be
    admitted.
    Doubtful Conscience

    Suspends
    judgment on the
    lawfulness of an
    action and
    therefore
    ( it is possible) the
    action should be
    omitted.
    Christian Conscience

    judges moral good


    and evil ultimately
    according to
    Jesus Christ’s life and
    teachings.
    In this lesson, I learned that…

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