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The document discusses the concept of conscience, describing it as the practical judgment of reason regarding moral matters. It outlines three levels of conscience - antecedent, concomitant, and consequent - relating to judgment before, during, and after an action. Conscience can be heteronomous, focusing on laws, or autonomous, being totally subjective. The document also describes various qualities of conscience, including whether it is free, correct, lax, strict, scrupulous, or callous. A mature conscience is described as free, correct, clear, and certain. People are obliged to follow their correctly formed conscience and not act with a doubtful conscience.

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7 Conscience

The document discusses the concept of conscience, describing it as the practical judgment of reason regarding moral matters. It outlines three levels of conscience - antecedent, concomitant, and consequent - relating to judgment before, during, and after an action. Conscience can be heteronomous, focusing on laws, or autonomous, being totally subjective. The document also describes various qualities of conscience, including whether it is free, correct, lax, strict, scrupulous, or callous. A mature conscience is described as free, correct, clear, and certain. People are obliged to follow their correctly formed conscience and not act with a doubtful conscience.

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Conscience (“Little Voice”)

It is the practical judgment of reason upon


an individual act. An act of human intellect
regarding an action with respect to moral
matter

Conscience can be heteronomous conscience,


which focus on laws and obligations, while
autonomous conscience is totally subjective
which ignores the law.

Levels of Conscience
A. Antecedent Actual Conscience
This refers to making a judgment before
performing a moral human act.

B. Concomitant Actual Conscience


This refers to actual awareness of the
goodness and badness of a human act.

C. Consequent Actual Conscience


This refers to the person’s moral
reflection to past action.

Qualities of Conscience
A. Qualities which refers to a Personal Freedom
a. Free
 able to assume a personal moral
stand
b. Unfree
 hindered by some obstacle such
as fear or anger

B. Qualities which refers to Objective Values


a. Correct
 decisions are in conformity with
the moral values

C. Qualities which refers to Moral Attitude


a. Lax – is one which refuses to be bothered
about the distinction of good and evil.

b. Strict – is one which the moral


obligations are judge too harshly.

c. Scrupulous – is one that is constantly in


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

A scrupulous conscience can be


helped by direction from a wise
confessor, humble prayer, and
sometimes by professional help.

d. Pharisaical – is one that is excessively or


hypocritically judge by a self-righteous
person.

e. Clear – is one that is free and certain


with the moral human act.

f. Callous – is one that has no conscience at


all.

D. Qualities which refers to Degree of Certitude


a. Perplexed – a conscience, which is
confused or bewildered.

b. Doubtful – a conscience with insufficient


evidence to make a certain judgment.
c. Probable – a conscience which arrives a
practical judgment however consider it as
apparently true.

d. certain - is one that applies moral norms


to particular cases in conformity with
right reason.

Qualities of a fully mature and responsible


conscience
A. Free
B. Correct
C. Clear
D. Certain

Obligations relative to conscience


A. When our conscience is honestly and
correctly formed, we are obliged to follow it
in any circumstances.

B. An individual must always act in accordance


with certain conscience

C. No one is allowed to act with a doubtful


conscience.

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