1. H/W: 1. Revise conscience for test
Innate conscience
Learning Objective: To understand Butler and Newman’s arguments about the conscience.
H/W: 1. Revise conscience for test
2. Evaluate claims that conscience is the voice of God for 25th September

2. Recap Write 5 key points about Freud’s view of the conscience
Write 5 key points about Fromm’s view of the conscience

3. Butler
Who was he?
What were his principles?
What were his teachings?

4. Butler’s view of conscience
Final moral decision maker
Conscience makes us focus on happiness of others and not ourselves
Determines & judges the morality of an action
Has ultimate authority
Ultimate intuitive judgements
Natural guide.
Put there by God so should be obeyed.
Humans influenced by self love & benevolence

5. Newman’s view of conscience
Following conscience means you follow a divine law
Must do what is right even if a mistake
Can be tensions between conscience & moral authority
We feel answerable to & responsible to conscience
Personal source of moral law