Conscience: Religious vs Secularist Perspective

The existence of conscience and its authority over humanity was always a common battlefield between religious and secular arguments. Dr. Peter Cliffe, a world-famous philosopher, unifies conscience with mankind through his "conscience of conscience". Dr. Kreeft thought fully about the two aspects of the program. He explained his conscience in his authority and rationality and further explained his moral and error character. Dr. Cliff's claim, Dante's "Comedy of God" shows the result of moral recognition and human misconduct.

This entry deals with the main features of philosophical arguments, religious teachings, and concepts of conscience used for common words. The views adopted here are theoretical and not historical. Entries focus on Western traditions, and some examples come from Christian resources. This entry is based on the conceptualization of conscience that is four possibilities but not mutually exclusive. Before that there will be an introduction section outlining the diversity of the concepts of conscience, moral neutrality and subjective character. The four main aspects of conscience explained are as follows. Section 2 explains the ability of conscience as self-recognition and self-evaluation. Section 3 introduces an understanding of conscience that enables the formation of moral beliefs, distinguishes between various possible sources of moral beliefs and therefore provides information on these beliefs.

The third aspect of religious conscience is that it usually does not have moral conscience, self adaptability and practical rationality. From the internal point of view of religious believers, the only good and correctness 95 is a value that can not be reduced to individual identity or self adaptability. It is not even completely identified or measured by reference to ethical and practical rationality. Religious people believe religious activities, especially obedience to religious conscience, have unique and transcendental values. It involves harmony with all legitimate causes and the main religion is considered to be God so it can not be reduced to human will, nature or genetic determinism 96.