Conscience

Second Quarter

Week 3

Picture Analysis

Activity:

Open Ended

What do you observe in the picture?

Open Ended

What are your insights about the picture?

Open Ended

What can you observe in the picture?

Christian

Conscience

Word Cloud

What motivates you to assist or support others?

What is
Conscience?

Misconception of Conscience

Conscience is not:
1. Individualistic
2. God’s Voice within Us
3. Our Feeling of Guilt
4. Media’s Depiction of Conscience as external reality is accurate

What is
Conscience?

Conscience
-Latin word: conscientia
con + scientia = with + knowledge

What is Conscience?

- is popularly understood as
that “little voice within”
(tinig ng budhi)
which tells us whether we
done right or wrong.

CFC 701

What is Conscience?
Conscience- is a practical judgment that
evaluates whether an action, word,
thought, desire, or omission is good and
to be consented to or evil and to be
avoided.

Since it is an act of judgment, it
considers a choice between right and
wrong.

What is Conscience?

“It is our secret core and sanctuary where we are alone with God.”

 

  CCC 1776-1778

Role of Conscience

•Antecedent Conscience

•Concomitant Conscience

•Consequent Conscience

Role of Conscience

•Antecedent Conscience
Ante- before
Cedere- go
•Concomitant Conscience
Con- with or together
Comitari- (comes) companion
•Consequent Conscience
Con- with or together
Sequi- to follow

Role of Conscience

•Antecedent Conscience
-Conscience which discerns (before the act)
•Concomitant Conscience

-Conscience in action (during the act)
•Consequent Conscience

-Conscience which reviews, evaluates an
action which has already been done.
(after the act)

Dimension of Human Conscience
1. Subjective- refers to the person’s
norm of judging moral good or evil.
Simply means that an individual’s
conscience is his or hers and no one
else’s.

2. Objective- this means that our
conscience, while intimately ours, is
formed by the universal values and norms
we learn from others.
- we are all persons-in-community

Kinds of Conscience

1. Right Conscience

2. Erroneous Conscience

3. Doubtful Conscience

4. Confused Conscience

5. Scrupulous Conscience

6. Lax Conscience

Multiple Choice

It is a kind of conscience wherein one mistakenly judges something that is really evil to be good or something good to be evil.

• Doubtful Conscience

• Scrupulous Conscience

• Erroneous or False Conscience

• Lax Conscience

Multiple Choice

It is a kind of conscience where one judges what is good as good and what  is evil as evil.

• Doubtful conscience

• Right or True conscience

• Confused conscience

• Lax conscience

Multiple Choice

It is a kind of conscience where one cannot decide if an act is good and to be done or evil and to be avoided.

• Doubtful conscience

• Confused conscience

• Lax conscience

• Erroneous conscience

Multiple Choice

It is a kind of conscience wherein when confronted with two alternatives, fears sin in whatever choice.

• Lax conscience

• Right conscience

• Doubtful conscience

• Confused conscience

Multiple Choice

It is a kind of conscience wherein one is extremely afraid of committing evil. In fear of sin when there is none, or  in fear of mortal sin when there is only venial sin.

• Right conscience

• Lax conscience

• Scrupulous conscience

• Erroneous conscience

Multiple Choice

It is a conscience where one judges more by convenience than by God’s law and leads a person to easily commit sin.

• Lax conscience

• Doubtful conscience

• Confuse conscience

• Right conscience

Kinds of Conscience

1. Right or True Conscience

-judges what is good as good and what is evil as evil.

-this conscience corresponds to the objective moral values and precepts.

Kinds of Conscience

2. Erroneous or False Conscience

-mistakenly judges something that is really evil to be good or something good to be evil.

-mistakenly judges something that is really evil to be good or something good to be evil.

Kinds of Conscience

3. Doubtful Conscience

Certain Conscience- passes judgment about the goodness and evilness of an act without fear of committing error.

Doubtful Conscience
- can not decide if an act is good to be done or evil to be avoided.

When in doubt , one must refrain from
acting and resolve the doubt first.

Kinds of Conscience

Erroneous or False Conscience

-an erroneous conscience whose error is due to the neglect of malice is called culpable conscience.

Kinds of Conscience

4. Confused Conscience

-when confronted with two alternatives, fears sin in whatever choice.
- thus before acting, one must determine the goodness or evilness of an act itself, purpose, and circumstance.

Kinds of Conscience

5. Scrupulous Conscience

-extremely afraid of committing evil.

In fear of sin when there is none, or in
fear of mortal sin when there is only
venial sin.

Kinds of Conscience

6. Lax Conscience

-judges more by convenience than by God's law and leads a person to easily commit sin.

-everything is judged carelessly, without thought of the consequences or the offense to God

3 Stages of Conscience

1. Instinctive Level

2. Ethical or Moral Level

3. Christian or Religious Level

3 Stages of Conscience

1. Instinctive Level

-an act is judged as good if it is it is rewarded, and judged as evil if it is punished.

-focus only on the avoidance of punishment or the attainment of rewards.

3 Stages of Conscience

2. Ethical Level

-a person begins to realize that the goodness or evilness of an act does not depend on the approval of others or on the prospect of a reward or
punishment.

- this is about authentic identity and character.

3 Stages of Conscience

3.Christian or Religious Level

-our moral judgment will somehow reflect our deep, personal, and mature faith in Jesus Christ.

-judge an act to be good or evil on the basis of the teachings, the life, and the perfect example of Christ.

-bringing moral discernment into prayer

Open Ended

Can we form and educate our conscience? If yes, then how? If no, then why?

Forming a Christian Conscience
•Ways of forming our minds

1. Learning from the experiences and reflections

2. Taking time to read and study Sacred Scriptures

3. Listening to Parents

4. Learning in school

5. Study the teachings and principles of Church on moral issues

6. Consulting Parents, teachers, and counselors on issues and life situations

Forming a Christian Conscience
•Ways of forming our hearts

1. Spending moments alone in quiet personal prayer and reflection

2. Attending and participating in the Holy
   Eucharist

3. Joining Prayer groups or recollection

4. Celebrating the sacraments, especially the reconciliation.