Class number : 20612 Student name : Gyeong-jin Oh
Imagine that as if you were caught by your friend while you were stealing a piece of bread in the bakery. While your face is turning red and the cold sweat comes out from your back and hand, your friend will ask you like this; Don’t you have any conscience in your heart? Almost every people would lower their head, and try to reflect their behavior. However, if I were the thief, I can answer that question like this; "Sure I have! However, my conscience which exists in my mind is so small that it is hard to persuade me to do right." Actually, people's morally wrong behaviors and guilty mind are not the problems of the existence of the conscience. Since the individual conscience originates from the desire of the self-esteem which integrally exists in our mind, a conscience which is differed from the …show more content…
In intuitionism, conscience is formed based on the innate intuitive power which judges the right and wrong behaviors and thoughts. This means, our mind have various inborn principles to keep, and these whole principles become our conscience. Even though there are a bunch of principles, the higher principle which determines the rank or importance of those does not exist, so we do not strictly prioritize something while acting based on our conscience(Jun-man Kang, 2008).
In empiricism, conscience is a subjective decision based on the past experiences. They suggest that the concept of the conscience can be understood and recognized only when those meanings are related to the past experiences. Also, people always think of the legitimacy of the conscience based on those past experiences, too. Since people start to experience something from when they born, the formation of the conscience is natural, it argues(SNU Educational Research Institute,