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Assignment:. What does it mean to “follow your conscience?” And how do you know that following your conscience is the right thing to do?. Conscience. Being True to ourselves. Chapter Objectives.
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Assignment: What does it mean to “follow your conscience?” And how do you know that following your conscience is the right thing to do?
Conscience Being True to ourselves
Chapter Objectives • Recognize that popular uses of the word “conscience” are frequently inadequate to describe all that the term involves. • Realize that a fuller understanding of conscience includes 3 dimensions
Chapter Objectives • Know that Scripture and Tradition emphasize the importance of using our conscience to make informed moral decisions • To understand that our dignity as persons created by God requires us to follow our conscience
Assignment: • Do Activity D on page 45 • Answer all questions in your notebooks
Popular Descriptions of Conscience: An inner Voice
Popular Descriptions of Conscience Our Upbringing
Popular Descriptions of Conscience A feeling
Conscience • Latin root: “to know” has to do with knowing, refers to an action rather than a thing • A moral decision-making ability, or action, centering on what a person has already done or ought to do.
Conscience • It’s a moral decision making involving : • an awareness that there is right and wrong: • a process of discernment • and finally judgment
Conscience • The voice of God the Father echoing in our hearts • At the core of who we are • Has nothing to do with what “we want to do” ; instincts and desires can muddle our conscience