God has given humans everything needed to achieve their purpose, including human freedom. True freedom means doing what is good, leading to self-actualization, not self-destruction. Our questions about discerning moral acts point to the gift of human conscience. Conscience is our inherent sensitivity to basic human values and needs, our capacity to discern good from evil, and our ability to apply moral laws to specific situations. It is not simply doing what feels good individually, a supernatural voice, the feeling of guilt, or an external reality, but rather an inherent human capacity for moral discernment.
while pursuing my BBA(H), i have done project on marketing research conducted by HCL-CDC, & my responsibility was as business development executives.here we basically addressed live business issues,
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.
while pursuing my BBA(H), i have done project on marketing research conducted by HCL-CDC, & my responsibility was as business development executives.here we basically addressed live business issues,
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.
Chapter 1 Conscience Determines What's Right (Hubbard Winslow) From Introduction to Ethical Studies An Open Source Reader by Lee Archie & John G. Archie
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According to Worldometers' estimates for 2022, New Zealand has a population of roughly 4.9 million people. Christianism is the predominant religion in the nation, and English and Maori are the two most widely spoken languages.
New Zealanders typically think of themselves as being accepting of new concepts, diversity, and change. Most New Zealanders are proud of the historically predominately liberal social attitudes in their nation (for instance, New Zealand was the first nation in the world to grant women the right to vote). Most New Zealanders make an effort to be understanding and tolerant of most differences.
I. Basic Concepts
Ethics define
- Human Act vs Act of Man
- Essential Elements of Human Act
- Determinants of Morality
- Modifiers of Human Act
- Norms of Morality
II. Rules
1. God have granted us everything that is necessary
to help us achieve our purpose and goal – to be
truthful, good, and beautiful (Principle 4 –
Purpose of the Human Persons as a Created
Reality ).
One of the necessary things God
granted us to help us achieve our
goal is human freedom.
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2. True freedom means to do what is
true, good, and beatiful. True
freedom leads to self-actualization, not
to to self-destruction or destruction of
other people in community.
3. How do we judge the goodness or
evilness of our moral acts?
What enables us to discern if our
acts make us more human, more
truly free?
What should we do to grow in this
capacity of discernment and
judgement?
Our questions point to God’s gift of Human
Conscience
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4. Conscience serves precisely this
purpose:
1. Conscience is our inherent sensitivity to
basic human needs and values supported
by rules and laws.
2. Conscience is our capacity to discern the
good from the evil, the moral from the
immoral.
3. Conscience is our ability to apply
universal moral laws to particular moral
situations.
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5. What is
conscience?
Objectives:
1. Critique and correct some
common misconceptions
about conscience;
2. Discuss the nature of human
conscience and how
conscience actually operates;
and
3. Reflect on how we can
educate and courageously
follow our conscience.
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6. What Conscience Is Not – Wrong
Understanding of Conscience
1. “It’s between me and my conscience”
• Conscience is simply doing things “ my way,”
without considering the good of others
• This notion presumed that conscience is being able
to perform an act that you personally and
individually feel good about, regardless of how it
affects other people.
• “ What matters most is not whether what I did was
morally good or evil but that I was personally the
one who made the decision” – individualistic notion
of conscience.
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7. What Conscience Is Not – Wrong
Understanding of Conscience
2. “Conscience is God’s voice within us”
• This notion presumed that conscience is a
separate, supernatural, other-worldly voice of
God that we hear with our inner ear, having no
connection with our own knowledge and power
of reasoning and discernment.
• We naturally relate the voice of our conscience
to God, first, because God has created us as
moral persons, and second, because God is the
perfect norm of goodness.
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8. 3. “ Conscience is the feeling of guilt”
• This notion presumed that conscience is our
feeling of guilt when we do something wrong.
• Conscience is reduced and equated to the
feeling of guilt.
• Does this mean that our conscience is
automatically correct once we no longer feel
guilty?
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9. 4. “ Conscience is an external reality”
• This notion presumed that conscience is an
another existing reality outside of ourselves.
• This implies that folowing one’s conscience is
simply an act of personal deliberation without
reference to any objective moral standard.
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10. Can you come up now with a
correct definition of
conscience?
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