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Conscience

Conscience is not merely a feeling or personal decision-making; it is a moral judgment that guides individuals to love good and avoid evil. It is fallible and shaped by historical, social, and cultural contexts, consisting of three levels: capacity, process, and judgment. The document also emphasizes the importance of ethical codes in helping individuals and organizations maintain accountability in their behavior.

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Conscience

Conscience is not merely a feeling or personal decision-making; it is a moral judgment that guides individuals to love good and avoid evil. It is fallible and shaped by historical, social, and cultural contexts, consisting of three levels: capacity, process, and judgment. The document also emphasizes the importance of ethical codes in helping individuals and organizations maintain accountability in their behavior.

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Conscience

What conscience is NOT:

Conscience is not a feeling, whether good or bad. One can feel guilty about a whole range of
things which have nothing to do with conscience. Similarly, the fact that one does not feel guilty
about an issue does not make it right. It is also not making up one's mind by oneself about what
ought be done.

• Conscience is not infallible because our own circumstances are always historically, socially and
culturally defined. Decisions of conscience are necessarily fallible and subject to correction and
change.

What conscience IS:

. Only when one decides to do, or not to do, something, is one acting out of conscience. But, as
noted above, we can never know ourselves completely, and so decisions of conscience are
necessarily incomplete and partial.

Conscience is the act of moral judgement. (Thomas Aquinas)

Conscience is what summons us to love good and avoid evil. (Vatican II)

There are three levels of Conscience:

1. Capacity: an innate sense of the fundamental characteristic of being human which makes it
possible to know and do good.

2. Process: searching for what is right through accurate perception and analysis, making use of
sources of moral wisdom wherever they may be found.

3. Judgement: of what I must do in the situation based on my personal perception and grasp of
values.

Ultimately conscience is the whole person's commitment to values and the judgement one must
make in light of that commitment to apply those values.

Extending Knowledge: Exploring ethical codes

In this lesson students will explore how ethical codes of committees and organisations help
people to draw the line and to be accountable for the way they behave.

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