Download Intuitive conscience (Butler)

Innate conscience
Learning Objective: To understand Butler
and Newman’s arguments about the
conscience.
H/W: 1. Revise conscience for test
2. Evaluate claims that conscience is the
voice of God for 25th September
Recap
 Write 5 key points about Freud’s view of
the conscience
 Write 5 key points about Fromm’s view of
the conscience
Butler
 Who was he?
 What were his principles?
 What were his teachings?
Butler’s view of
conscience
• Final moral decision maker
• Conscience makes us focus on happiness of
others and not ourselves
• Determines & judges the morality of an action
• Has ultimate authority
• Ultimate intuitive judgements
• Natural guide.
• Put there by God so should be obeyed.
• Humans influenced by self love & benevolence
Newman’s view of
conscience
 Following conscience means you follow a
divine law
 Must do what is right even if a mistake
 Can be tensions between conscience &
moral authority
 We feel answerable to & responsible to
conscience
 Personal source of moral law