The topic is all about how to use human conscience through the light of reason and emotion, and by looking at the example and teachings of Jesus Christ.

1. VALUES, NORMS, AND
CONSCIENCE

2. What do you consider to
be the world’s greatest
problems?

3. Solution 1:
Respect and uphold the basic
human rights of all persons
regardless of faith, race or
culture.

4. Solution 2:
Love God; love your neighbor.
Solution 4:
Do to others as you would have others
do to you.
Solution 3:
Keep the Ten Commandments

5. *No law applies itself. Laws are general
and universal.
*Our acts and experiences are specific
and particular.
*What empowers us to apply universal
norms to our acts is our human
conscience.

6. CONSCIENCE
The capacity of our reason to discern or
judge the goodness or evil of particular
moral acts, with the feeling of morally
obliged to do what is good and avoid
what is evil

7.  Conscience is the function
of our reason to judge our
acts(or the acts of others)
and tell whether an act is
morally good or evil.

8.  To make this judgment, our
consciences need a standard or
criteria. Human conscience uses
moral norms as the standard for
judging the moral goodness or
evil of an act.

9.  while the operation of the conscience
primarily involves the act of thinking, it often
comes with the feeling of being morally obliged
to do what is good and avoid what is evil. We
know this is true because when we reject the
good to which our conscience directs us, we
usually experience the feeling of guilt.
 Our consciences involves both our reason
(head) and our feelings/emotions (heart).

10. NATURE AND OPERATION OF
HUMAN CONSCIENCE
Our consciences are subjective because our
consciences are personal and intimately ours
(and no one else’s). Through our conscience, we
all have the capacity to think about our acts and
judge whether they are morally good or not.
Subjective quality of conscience refutes the myth
that peers, parents, or other external forces can
take the place of our individual consciences.

11. NATURE AND OPERATION OF HUMAN
CONSCIENCE
Our consciences are objective. Because we are
persons-in-community, our consciences are
formed by objective moral laws and cultural
relationships with other people. What we judge
to be morally good or evil does not depend on
our personal whims or preferences. (otherwise,
we would only be acting in a self-centered way,
and every person’s judgment will automatically
be correct. This objective quality of conscience
debunks the myth that conscience is simply
individualistic thinking.

12. THREE LEVELS OF PERSONAL MORALITY
 We are called to uphold universal human
values that are grounded on our human
dignity. These values are true to all persons
regardless of faith, race, or culture.
 the values of family, human life, chastity.
Truth, justice, etc.

13. THREE LEVELS OF PERSONAL MORALITY
 We too are called to understand and obey
universal objective moral norms (moral laws),
general expressions of basic human values.
For example, the seventh commandment
“You shall not steal” is a universal objective
moral norm that upholds the basic human
value of justice and personal property.

14. THREE LEVELS OF PERSONAL MORALITY
 We are called to use our conscience in
applying objective moral norms to our
particular moral acts. This means that we
need to use our consciences in judging
whether a moral act we creatively applying
the universal objective moral norm on
stealing to this singular act.