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1) Synteresis
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Synderesis, in scholastic moral philosophy, is the natural capacity or disposition (habitus) of the practical reason to apprehend intuitively the universal first principles of human action. Reason is a single faculty, but is called differently according to the end that it assigns to its search for truth; when its goal is the mere consideration (co...
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(from the article `law, philosophy of`) ...like instinct; but the question arises at the higher grades whether there is any comparable instinct by which men seek to find moral precepts ...
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(Late Gr. synteresis, spark of conscience, may be connected with syneidesis, conscience) In Scholastic philosophy: the habitus, or permanent, inborn disposition of the mind to think of general and broad rules of moral conduct which become the principles from which a man may reason in directing his own moral activities. First used, apparently, by S....
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innate knowledge of the basic principles of morality. · the essence of the soul that unites with God.
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