“Nikola Vaptsarov” Foreign Language High School, Shumen, Bulgaria

 

Didactical path “Conscience / Consciousness”

Philosophy

 

1. St. Maximos the Confessor

·    Conscience is God’s logos which penetrates soul;

 

2. Anselm of Canterbury

·   Conscience, con-scientia – mutual knowledge in love, common to  man and God;

 

3. Saint Thomas Aquinas

 

·    the relationship between autonomy (self-determination) and theonomy (Biblical law)

 

4. Immanuel Kant

·   Consience – a priori laws

·   Consience – duty

Determinism – indeterminism and conscience

·   Marcus Aurelius

·   St. Augustine the Blessed – “man is sensible and free, he is the commencement of his acts and is therefore responsible for them”

·   Boethius

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