Chapter 4-Conscience
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Antecedent Judgment of Conscience | judgment that precedes an action |
| Autonomous Morality | the belief that an individual's conscience is the only moral authority; also called subjective morality |
| Blessed | as used in the Beatitudes, it means "bliss"-a reference to the ultimate happiness of Heaven |
| Certain Conscience | Conscience that issues a judgment in certainty; it is correct only insofar as the conscience is rightly formed |
| Concomitant Judgment of Conscience | judgment of the morality of an action as it is taking place |
| Conscience | the inner voice of a human being, on whose heart is inscribed the law of God; moral conscience is a judgment of practical reason about the moral quality of a human action that he or she is going to perform, is in the process of performing, or has already performed |
| Conscientious Objection | a personal appeal that to carry out a particular action that has been ordered by legitimate authority would be against one's own conscience |
| Consequent Judgment of Conscience | a moral judgment made after the act |
| Doubtful Conscience | judgment of conscience that occurs when there is doubt about the good or evil of an act done or omitted; unless one is required to act immediately; a person is required to determine the moral rectitude of an act before acting on a doubtful conscience |
| Erroneous Conscience | judgment of the practical intellect that decides from false principles, erroneously considered as true, that something is lawful, which in fact is unlawful |
| Examination of Conscience | prayerful self-reflection on one's words and deeds in light of the Gospel to determine whether one has sinned against God; this is necessary to prepare for the Sacrament of Penance |
| Scrupulous Conscience | a conscience that judges an action to be morally evil when in fact it is not, or a venial sin to be mortal |
| True Conscience | the freedom or power of deciding or judging the right course of action; this application of the practical intellect deduces from true principles (insofar as the conscience is conformed to them) that an act is lawful |
| Universal Call to Holiness | refers to the fact that every baptized person is called to seek holiness regardless of his or her state of life; this call was reaffirmed by the Second Vatican Council |
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