Timothy O'Connell identified conscience as Capacity, as a Process and as Judgment.
The three are intrinsically linked and are necessary to effectively evaluate and act on a moral issue.
First of all, Conscience is a capacity of being human. Everyone has a general awareness of right and wrong. This capacity highlights our basic orientation towards the good. When we look at Sociopath’s and Psychopaths, we readily recognize our conscience and the search for the good.
Secondly; Conscience is a process of moral reasoning. To know right and avoid evil requires active interaction. Each situation requires us to act according to our conscience. We have to question our actions and respond according to the information we gather. Our guidelines are based on personal experiences, moral theologians, sciences, scriptures and Church tradition.
Thirdly; Conscience is a Judgment. Conscience is incomplete until you act on it. After examining all the factors..you commit to an action. An action that you believe is right.
In the end, Conscience requires that we recognize right from wrong, that we engage in a healthy dialgue to assertain the right course of action based upon numerous resources and that we act.
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
Joseph Cook
“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
Stephen R. Covey
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft
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without a conscience there is nothing in your head trying to stop you from doing wrong things in life
Without conscience we would not know right from wrong. Conscience helps people understand what is going on around them.
Conscience-ness, I think therefore I am! The internal sense of what is right and wrong that governs somebody’s thoughts and actions, urging him or her to do right rather than wrong, if you’re neither, your nothing, right that down.
i think having a conscience is important because it helps you make difficult choices in life
“Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors” -Ludwig van Beethoven
By looking at our errors and thinking upon them, that is how we develop our coscience. From making mistakes, we can make better judgements in the future. Looking and admitting to your own errors is a difficult thing to do, but once you can do it, it really helps you in life.
conscience doesnt always necessarily mean you will choose between wrong and right, you might be choosing between what YOU believe to be wrong and right, which could very much differ from the sterotypical view set before us.
Self-knowledge that leads us to feel an obligation to do right or be good(Jo 8:9.
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