Natural Law

Ethics
St. Thomas Aquinas
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Conscience is an inner feeling or
voice viewed as acting as a guide to
the rightness or wrongness of one's
behavior.
 Different Kinds of
Conscience

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1 Correct conscience - tells us when
something is a good choice or a bad
choice and that this decision is in
agreement with what that thing is
according to the law.
2 Erroneous conscience - judges
something incorrectly, when something
is bad you think it is good and when it is
good you think it is bad.
 3 Certain conscience - means
convinced without any doubt that
an action is good or bad.

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Doubtful conscience - means
when you cannot choose
between good and bad choices.
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Lax conscience - means
when you see no sin where
there is sin.
 6 Scrupulous conscience - means a
conscience that judges that there is sin where
there is no sin, or that judges that something is
a mortal sin when it is only a venial sin.
a sin that is relatively slight or that is committed without
full reflection or consent

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Delicate conscience - judges
correctly and with careful attention
concerning the acts that are about to
be performed.
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Scrupulous conscience – constantly
afraid of committing evil, this is a
result of stubborn character.
determined to do what they want and is very unwilling to
change their mind.
 9 Guilty conscience – or disturbed
conscience trying to restore good
relations with God through sorrow
and repentance.

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Callous conscience – insensitive,

0 heartless, there is a cruel disregard

for others.
1.Self- Preservation
2.Just dealing with others
3.Propagation of the human species
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Thank you!