This document contains a student's responses to learning activities on the topic of conscience. It discusses how conscience is defined as the part of the psyche that induces guilt or pleasure based on one's actions and values. Conscience is related to ethics as it helps with ethical decision making and judgment. Conscience is important because it makes us aware of our moral principles and allows us to assess our character. While one should generally follow their conscience, it is also important to educate one's conscience to ensure it is properly informed. The student then shares a personal experience of facing a moral dilemma in choosing their college course against their parents' wishes.
This document contains a student's responses to learning activities on the topic of conscience. It discusses how conscience is defined as the part of the psyche that induces guilt or pleasure based on one's actions and values. Conscience is related to ethics as it helps with ethical decision making and judgment. Conscience is important because it makes us aware of our moral principles and allows us to assess our character. While one should generally follow their conscience, it is also important to educate one's conscience to ensure it is properly informed. The student then shares a personal experience of facing a moral dilemma in choosing their college course against their parents' wishes.
This document contains a student's responses to learning activities on the topic of conscience. It discusses how conscience is defined as the part of the psyche that induces guilt or pleasure based on one's actions and values. Conscience is related to ethics as it helps with ethical decision making and judgment. Conscience is important because it makes us aware of our moral principles and allows us to assess our character. While one should generally follow their conscience, it is also important to educate one's conscience to ensure it is properly informed. The student then shares a personal experience of facing a moral dilemma in choosing their college course against their parents' wishes.
This document contains a student's responses to learning activities on the topic of conscience. It discusses how conscience is defined as the part of the psyche that induces guilt or pleasure based on one's actions and values. Conscience is related to ethics as it helps with ethical decision making and judgment. Conscience is important because it makes us aware of our moral principles and allows us to assess our character. While one should generally follow their conscience, it is also important to educate one's conscience to ensure it is properly informed. The student then shares a personal experience of facing a moral dilemma in choosing their college course against their parents' wishes.
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NAME: SALMAH ALAWI BANDRAG
COURSE: BEED 1A
LEARNING ACTIVITIES: 30 points
1. Define conscience in your own understanding. The conscience is defined as that part of the human psyche that induces mental anguish and feelings of guilt when we violate it and feelings of pleasure and well-being when our actions, thoughts and words are in conformity to our value systems. The conscience is a delicate instrument that must be respected. One who seeks to influence the consciences of others carries a heavy responsibility to maintain the integrity of the other person’s own personality as crafted by God. Conscience is a servant of the individual’s value system. An immature or weak value system produces a weak conscience, while a fully informed value system produces a strong sense of right and wrong. In the Christian life, one’s conscience can be driven by an inadequate understanding of scriptural truths and can produce feelings of guilt and shame disproportionate to the issues at hand. Maturing in the faith strengthens the conscience. Conscience describes two things – what a person believes is right and how a person decides what is right. More than just ‘gut instinct’, our conscience is a ‘moral muscle’. Basically, conscience is what makes us feel guilty if we lie or steal or it tells us that we shouldn't do something because it's considered 'bad.' By informing us of our values and principles, it becomes the standard we use to judge whether or not our actions are ethical. We can call these two roles ethical awareness and ethical decision making.
2. How is conscience related to ethics?
The function of the conscience in ethical decision making tends to complicate matters for us. The commandments of God are eternal, but in order to obey them we must first appropriate them internally. The “organ” of such internalization has been classically called the conscience. Some describe this nebulous inner voice as the voice of God within. The conscience is a mysterious part of man’s inner being. Within the conscience, in a secret hidden recess, lies the personality, so hidden that at times it functions without our being immediately aware of it. When Sigmund Freud brought hypnosis into the place of respectable scientific inquiry, men began to explore the subconscious and examine those intimate caverns of the personality. Encountering the conscience can be an awesome experience. The uncovering of the inner voice can be, as one psychiatrist notes, like “looking into hell itself.”
3. Why is conscience important?
Conscience is the most fundamental of all moral duties the duty to unite one's powers of reason, emotion, and will into an integrated moral whole based upon one's most fundamental moral principles and identity. This very fundamental nature gives conscience its primacy in deliberation about particular acts. Through our individual conscience, we become aware of our deeply held moral principles, we are motivated to act upon them, and we assess our character, our behavior and ultimately our self against those principles. 4. Should you always follow your conscience? Explain. Yes, because “Conscience” is simply a way of referring to “What you think is the right thing to do.” So it’s certainly wrong to disobey your conscience. Equally, it’s wrong to ignore or silence or suppress your conscience. You ought to do what you think is right. But if this is all we ever say about our conscience, we’re only telling half the story. To illustrate the problem, consider what happens to the Christian whose conscience tells him that it’s always wrong to drink alcohol, or that abortion is OK because every woman has the right to choose, or that (as someone once famously said) evangelism is unnecessary because when God is pleased to convert the heathen he’ll do so without your help or mine? Clearly there is something wrong with the Christian’s conscience in these instances. And this highlights that we have a two-fold duty in relation to our conscience: not merely to follow it, but to educate it. It’s not good enough to say simply, “I’m following my conscience, so that’s fine,” because your conscience may be wrong. If you’re not open the the possibility that you may have read the route incorrectly, you’ll walk off the edge of a cliff convinced that you’re heading in the right direction.
5. Share one story/event in your life where you had experienced moral dilemma. Elaborate how did your decision affect your life in that particular moment.
It was a difficult choice of my course in college because as a student I had a hard
time recognizing what I liked, even though I shifted the course I just asked myself what I
was really learning, for me I regret the days that passed when I was studying in a course
that I didn't want because I was also forced into my previous course. As a child, they also
control my desires because it is also for my benefit but even if they don't ask me what I
want, God is the one I always talk to when I am down and I try to say to my parents that I
will be a teteacher because I also want to share with other people what I know or have
learned. I continued my studies even though my parents did not support me, because
