Conscience - Book 2 - Contents

{Rosmini Pelican}

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Conscience

Book 2 - Morality Resulting From Conscience

Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1			The Formation Of Conscience
	Article 1		Stimuli to the formation of conscience
	Article 2		The difference between the human spirit before the formation of conscience and the human spirit using conscience as the proximate rule of its actions
Chapter 2			Morality Consequent On Conscience
Chapter 3			The Origin And Development Of Moral Science In Human Beings
	Article 1		SPECIFIC MORAL formulas are formed before GENERIC MORAL formulas
	Article 2		We first form moral formulas about beings considered in themselves and then formulas about beings in their different relationships
		§1	*Formulas about beings considered in themselves*
		§2	*Formulas concerning beings in their mutual relationships*
		§3	*Positive laws are deduced from rational laws*
		§4	*Supreme formulas*
	Article 3		We first form reflective moral formulas having EXTERNAL ACTIONS as their object; then formulas having AFFECTIONS of the spirit as their object, and finally formulas espressing PRACTICAL ESTEEM
	Article 4		Summary and classification of all moral formulas
Chapter 4			The Different States And Accidents Of Conscience
	Article 1		Why questions on conscience have been discussed in the Church for three hundred years only
	Article 2		States of conscience, and states of the spirit when trying to form conscience
	Article 3		Questions on conscience
	Article 4		Rules of conscience are also moral formulas - their classification

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