What is the role of conscience in a moral decision?

Question

This can be oppinion based, etc. Just curious.

Answer 1

Concience is the inner voice telling you what is 'right'. Or what you should consider doing. Some people call this God's voice, others call it enhanced conciousness, and still others would call it communing with the Universe. Doesn't matter what you call it, if you do some soul searching, you typically know what's right. And in situations where there is no 'right', when everything is going awry, it is especially important to listen to what's inside you. That's the only way you can stay true to yourself and be at peace with the decisions you make.

Answer 2

I think I agree with the answer right above me.

Conscience is just a set of feelings that we can and should modify through practice.

Basically we ought to inform or train our conscience such that our conscience acts like a warning bell. Once our conscience warns that some situation should be examined, we then use our reason to make a moral decision.

But we ought not make our decisions based upon a set of feelings.

Answer 3

The role of the conscience is to help you make a moral decision. If you had no conscience you wouldn't be making moral decisions.

Answer 4

Good question...
{People interchange these words,

Here the two are mixed and become fuzzy.

Used here conscience is a sense of right and wrong.

Here moral decision is to put this "conscience" into practice.

To tie it in; moral decision is the result and practice of ones conscience.

Answer 5

Your conscience is a vital part of your morality, just as your sense of right and wrong, good or bad. The difference is that conscience is usually reffered to as the feeling or guilt from a past action your performed. Ex. my conscience is haunting me! he must have a guilty conscience!
In reality, conscience represents your consious mind, and therefore also your awareness of what you are feeling and thinking, and in that aspect, your conscience IS your morality.

Answer 6

Your conscience is that part of you that tries to tell you when you are about to do something wrong or are doing something that is wrong or that might hurt you or some one else. So in my opinion, it plays a major role in a moral decision.

Answer 7

Conscience, or self-examination and feeling about one's own actions, plays a central role in moral decision-making simply because we must live with our choices. Decide wisely!

Answer 8

Conscience is both taught and an evolutionary trait. I maintain conscience is involved in every moral decision. Whether we make a good or bad choice, our conscience intrudes first.

Answer 9

A biological feedback system that your brain conjures up in order to distance itself from any unconscious actions.

In a moral decision: it acts like a second gut, rejecting your first gut instinct about 60% of the time, and tries to convince you that it is right.

Answer 10

well, how about this? If our conscience is to decide what is moral or immoral, should we do the necessary work to "imform" our consceinces so our consciences will inform us in order not to make the mistake.