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    LAW AND CONSCIENCE

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    LAW AND CONSCIENCE concrete act that he is going to perform,

    is in the process of performing, or has


    Law – an ordinance of reason promulgated already completed.
    for the common good by one who has charge - It specifies our “moral obligation in the
    of the society. light of the natural law: it is the obligation
    Types of Law to do what the individual, through the
    workings of his conscience, knows to be a
     Eternal Law good he is called to do here and now.
    - It is the Divine Wisdom of God which
    oversees the common good and Kinds of Conscience
    governs everything. 1. Right Conscience
    - Eternal law is God’s plan to lead all - It refers to a conscience that judges
    creation towards God’s eternal salvific truthfully regarding the moral quality
    plan to be holy and blameless before of an act.
    Him through Jesus Christ. - It tells us when something is a good
     Divine Law choice or a bad choice and that this
    - It is the historical laws of Scripture decision is in agreement with what
    given to us through God’s self- that thing actually is according to the
    revelation. objective law.
    - Divine law is divided into the Old Law 2. Erroneous Conscience
    and the New Law, which correspond to - It fails to reach the truth, viewing as
    the Old and New Testaments of the good an action that in reality is bad, or
    Bible. vice versa.
     Natural Law - It judges something incorrectly, when
    - It is the unchanging moral principle something is bad you think it is good
    common to all human beings. and when it is good you think it is bad.
    - An observable law relating to natural
    phenomena. Types of Erroneous Conscience
     Civil Law
    - The normative dispositions decreed by Perplexed – when confronted with two
    state authorities with the purpose of alternative precepts, the agent is afraid of
    promulgating and making explicit the choosing any of the alternatives.
    demands of the natural moral law Lax – without sufficient evidence, the person
    needed to make possible and regulate is inclined to judge a thing to be lawful, when
    adequately the life of its citizens in the in reality; it is unlawful, slightly evil when
    sphere of a politically organized actually it is gravely evil. When you see no
    society. sin where there actually is sin.
     Ecclesiastical Law
    - Give rise to an authentic moral Scrupulous – a conscience that judges that
    obligation that will be more or less there is sin where there really is no sin, or
    grave according to the gravity of the that judges that something is a mortal sin
    matter. when it is only a venial sin.
    - A set of rules that governs the beliefs
    and practices of a particular church. Certain – convinced without any doubt that
    an action is good or bad.
    Conscience
    Doubtful – when you cannot choose
    - A judgment of reason whereby the human between good and bad choices.
    person recognizes the moral quality of a

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