1. Venn Diagram – Place Scholars into Venn Diagram
Freud, Piaget, Augustine, Aquinas, Newman, Butler, Fromm, Kohlberg
Innate
Reason
Based
Acquired
Christian

2. Conscience Crits To question the idea of conscience as a moral guide
To explore some criticisms of the idea of conscience
To understand specific problems with different formations of conscience
1 - Flashcards; match scholars with criticisms
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3. Nietzsche Man is superman – God is dead
No objective moral truths (or any truths at all)
Any imposed view of conscience barrier to individual power
Right and Wrong do not exist
What does Nietzsche offer as a sense of morality?

4. Bentham
Conscience gets in the way of us calculating the greatest happiness for the greatest number, there is no room for notions of sentimental rights and wrongs.
How might Bentham be accused of being cold?

5. Marx
Life is about collective equality. Removes need for individual innate conscience.
Any Christian view is just a social opium.
Any issues with removal of individual completely?

6. Dawkins
Conscience is nothing more than an evolutionary biological process designed to help survival. If appears controlling, that is because it helps our survival to be limited.
How does Dawkins explain social moral norms?

7. Rorty
Conscience JUST culturally relative. Only a sense of guilt at going against society.
No such thing as universal sense of right or wrong.
How does this differ from Freud?

8. Summary ‘Conscience is not a reliable moral guide’
Bullet point possible responses to this past exam question