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    This document summarizes Thomas Aquinas's view on correct versus erring conscience. There are four key factors considered: 1) whether an action is objectively good or bad, 2) how one subjectively apprehends the action, 3) whether one is bound to follow their conscience, and 4) whether one is blamed for acting against or in accordance with their conscience. For a correct conscience, one who acts against or in accordance with it is blamed or not blamed, respectively. For an erring conscience due to invincible ignorance, one is not blamed for acting against it, but one may be blamed if the ignorance is vincible.

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    Correct vs. Erring Conscience (According to Aquinas) Phil 311 – Dr. T.

    Hoffmann

    Objectively, my Subjectively, Does my con- Am I blamed if I Am I blamed if I act in accord


    action is … I apprehend the science bind*? act against my with my conscience?
    action as … conscience?
    Correct Conscience

    Good† Good

    Yes Yes No

    Bad‡ Bad

    It depends:
    Erring Conscience

    Good Bad My conscience errs because of …

    Yes Yes
    invincible ignorance vincible ignorance
    ⇒ no blame ⇒ blame§
    Bad Good

    * “Binding” means “imposing a moral necessity” (just as physically tying someone up imposes a physical necessity on him or her).
    My “conscience is binding” means that I am morally obliged to act according to my conscience; or at least not to act against it.
    †
    Aquinas’s examples for good actions:
    • Refraining from fornication (i.e., being chaste);
    • Believing in Christ.
    ‡
    Aquinas’s examples for bad actions:
    • Killing the apostles;
    • Committing adultery.
    §
    Hence the importance of forming my conscience: I must overcome the ignorance of things I ought to know.

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