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What is conscience?

What is conscience?

Side-by-side comparison of Aquinas' reason-based model of conscience and Freud's id ego super-ego model with guilt labelled

Conscience is the process by which a person makes moral judgements about right and wrong, often with a sense of guilt or obligation. This topic compares two major explanations of that experience.

Significant Ideas Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Religious Studies
  3. /Significant Ideas

Step-by-step lessons on OCR A Level Religious Studies Significant Ideas. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Build a solid grounding in the philosophical arguments and key scholars before tackling the more evaluation-heavy essay questions.

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