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Lacuata - Performance Task 8

The document compares and contrasts various qualities of conscience. It discusses the differences between a clear conscience and a lax conscience, a free conscience and an unfree conscience, a correct conscience and an erroneous conscience, a clear conscience and an overly strict conscience, a clear conscience and a pharisaical conscience, a certain conscience and a doubtful conscience, a certain conscience and a perplexed conscience, and a certain conscience and a probable conscience. For each pair, it provides definitions of the qualities and how they differ in terms of one's moral attitude, freedom, conformity with objective truth/values, and degree of certainty.

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Lacuata - Performance Task 8

The document compares and contrasts various qualities of conscience. It discusses the differences between a clear conscience and a lax conscience, a free conscience and an unfree conscience, a correct conscience and an erroneous conscience, a clear conscience and an overly strict conscience, a clear conscience and a pharisaical conscience, a certain conscience and a doubtful conscience, a certain conscience and a perplexed conscience, and a certain conscience and a probable conscience. For each pair, it provides definitions of the qualities and how they differ in terms of one's moral attitude, freedom, conformity with objective truth/values, and degree of certainty.

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Lacuata, Calvin Nicole C.

St. Joseph of Cupertino Class

Performance Task 8

1. Compare and Contrast the following:

A. Clear Conscience and Lax Conscience are both qualities of conscience which refer to moral
attitude on the level of one’s habitual conscience. Clear conscience is a conscience which
confidently and freely and with due regard for perceiving, appreciating and interiorizing true
values which is able to achieve sound moral awareness of values and their demands at the
habitual level and make the proper transition in one’s actual conscience when confronted with
the moral decision regarding a particular way of acting. While lax conscience is a conscience
that is remiss or careless in its efforts to clearly perceive and interiorize particular moral values
or in the process of making the transition from the awareness of values to expressing them in act.

B. Free Conscience and Unfree Conscience are both qualities of conscience which refer to
personal freedom. With free conscience, one is able to assume a personal moral stance with
regard to a particular attitude, or moral responsibility for a particular action in a way that is
unhindered or unimpeded so as to be able to claim full responsibility for a particular attitude or
action. With unfree conscience, one’s moral attitude or responsibility for a particular action is to
a greater or lesser degree, hindered or impeded by some obstacle or influence. 

C. Correct Conscience and Erroneous Conscience are both qualities of conscience which refer
to objective truth and values. In the former, one’s subjective perceptions, discernments, dictates
and decisions of conscience are in conformity with the objective moral values and demands that
one is thriving to possess and to express in one’s personal actions. While in the latter, conscience
lacks conformity with truth. It can be invicibly or vincibly so. The invicibly erroneous
conscience is inculpable, since the person has no awareness of the possibility of error. Vincibly
erroneous conscience on the other hand, is culpable because with some good will its error could
be corrected.
D. Clear Conscience and Overly strict Conscience are both qualities of conscience which refer
to moral attitude on the level of one’s habitual conscience. Clear conscience is a conscience
which confidently and freely and with due regard for perceiving, appreciating and interiorizing
true values which is able to achieve sound moral awareness of values and their demands at the
habitual level and make the proper transition in one’s actual conscience when confronted with
the moral decision regarding a particular way of acting. While Overly strict Conscience is a
conscience that tends to judge moral obligations to harshly, especially in an excessively legalistic
way, adhering more to the letter than the spirit of the law as it where.

E. Clear Conscience and Pharisaical Conscience are both qualities of conscience which refer
to moral attitude on the level of one’s habitual conscience. On the one hand, Clear conscience is
a conscience which confidently and freely and with due regard for perceiving, appreciating and
interiorizing true values which is able to achieve sound moral awareness of values and their
demands at the habitual level and make the proper transition in one’s actual conscience when
confronted with the moral decision regarding a particular way of acting. On the other hand, a
Pharisaical Conscience is conscience which may gloss over even important moral demands that
should make a claim on a person’s conscience, such as the demands of charity, while giving
undue emphasis to the smallest details in fulfilling the demands of the law. It tends to be self-
righteous, as far as one’s own moral evaluation is concern, while tending to be judgmental
towards others, making unwarranted conclusions on the basis of external observance of the law.

F. Certain Conscience and Doubtful Conscience

A conscience is certain when it is able to reach a degree of certainty in its own formation and
moral judgment so that all practical doubt is resolved and the conscience is unhesitatingly clear
in the actual process of making a sound discernment, dictate and decision in the actual
conscience. On the contrary, a conscience is doubtful when it lacks sufficient evidence to make
a secure judgment.
G. Certain Conscience and Perplexed Conscience

A person with a certain conscience is able to reach a degree of certainty in its own formation and
moral judgment so that all practical doubt is resolved and the conscience is unhesitatingly clear
in the actual process of making a sound discernment, dictate and decision in the actual
conscience.  While a person with a perplexed conscience has a type of erroneous conscience
which, in a conflict of duties, fears sin in whatever choice it makes.  

H. Certain Conscience and Probable Conscience

Certain Conscience allows a person to reach a degree of certainty in its own formation and
moral judgment so that all practical doubt is resolved and the conscience is unhesitatingly clear
in the actual process of making a sound discernment, dictate and decision in the actual
conscience. A person has a probable conscience when the conscience arrives at the point where
it finds security in its own formation of a moral attitude at the habitual level or of a practical
level at the actual level, even while still admitting the possibility that the opposite may be true.

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