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8/4/2019 1-2 - Formation & Dev't of Conscience
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Formation and Development of Conscience
Ric A. Cervera
St. Paul University Iloilo
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You go to school whose academic standards are high,
and which requires excellent grades from students. This
situation is further complicated by your demanding parents
who expect you to do well. You have pretty good gradesduring your first 3 years in college.
You are now in your senior year, and in one of your major
subjects, your professor has been quite unfair. She has
planned a difficult test for you and your classmates. Youknow from past experience that half of the students in the
class cheat during exams. You have studied quite hard, but
you know that unless you cheat, many others will get higher
grades than you.
What would you do?
List3 reasons why you should cheat and3 reasons why
you should not to. Then, decide whether you will cheat or not.
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It is the proximate norm of personal morality, theultimate subjective norm for discerning moral good and evil,
with the feeling of being bound to follow its directive.
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It appliesobjective moral
norms to
particular acts.
Conscience as Inner Voice
It summonsthe person to
love the good
and avoid evil.
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Conscience is formed gradually through the
natural educational agents of family upbringing, schooltraining, parish catechesis, and the influence of friends
and social contacts.
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Christian conscience isformed gradually in faith andthrough personal and
ecclesial prayer-life:
by attending to the Word of
God and the teachings of theChurch,
by responsiveness to the
indwelling Holy Spirit, and
by critical reflection on our
concrete moral choices and
experiences of daily life.
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Heart factors include reading and prayerful
reflection on Jesus teaching and actions, and our
own prayer and sacramental life.
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Mind factors refer to a deepening in understanding
of Sacred Scripture and Church teaching, especially
Catholic moral principles, and sound moral guidance.
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Our moral responsibility is to develop a properly
informed conscience, and to correct any erroneous
conscience we may have had.
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Categories of Conscience
1. True Conscience
2. False Conscience3. Certain Conscience
4. Doubtful Conscience
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Categories of Conscience
1. True Conscience
- when it deduces correctly
from the principle that the
act is lawful, or it conformsto what is objectively right.
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Categories of Conscience
2. False or erroneous Conscience
- when it decides from false
principles which considered as
true that something which isunlawful. The conscience errs
because of false principles or
incorrect reasoning.
- Erroneous conscience has
further classification.
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a. Scrupulous Conscience
- one that for little or no
reason judges an act to bemorally evil when it is not,
or exaggerates the gravity
of sin, or sees sin where it
does not exist.
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b. Perplexed Conscience
-judges wrongly that sin is
committed both in theperformance or omission of
an act. One fears that sin is
committed whether it was
actually done or not.
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c. Lax Conscience
-judges on insufficient
ground that there is no sinin the act, or that the sin is
not grave as it is, or it is
insensitive to a moral
obligation in a particulararea.
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d. Pharisaical Conscience
- minimizes grave sins but
maximizes small ones.
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Categories of Conscience
3. Certain Conscience
- when without any prudent
fear or error, it decides that
the act is either lawful orunlawful, or if the person
has no doubt about the
correctness of his/ her
judgment.
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Categories of Conscience
Note on Certain Conscience
- a conscience can be
certain but at the same
time erroneous. A certainconscience is not
necessarily right; it
excludes all fears of error
about acting rightly.
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Categories of Conscience
4. Doubtful Conscience
- when it fails to pass a
moral judgment in the
character of the act due toa fear or error; or if the
person is unsure about the
correctness of his
judgment.
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