Thursday, February 16, 2012

TALKING ABOUT CONSCIENCE

Interesting series on the question of conscience at the blog "Life With a German Shepherd"


http://www.frdenis.blogspot.com/2012/02/talking-about-conscience-i.html

CONSCIENCE IS THE BODY OF IMAGINATION

All action is embodied. Even an imagined act requires some bodily function. One remembers what is actually done, and what one considers doing. Such memory is the content of one’s conscience – it is for this that one is responsible.

One’s whole experience of the world is expressed in one’s imagination – intellect, memory and creative will. One imagines bodily – one’s imagination contains all one has experienced in life, all one knows. Given that the world includes other than oneself, one can neither know nor even imagine all that is now, or has been, or will be beyond now.

Conscience considers all one consciously imagines (sub-consciousness is a matter for question). Imagination is the nexus between the real and the ideal. The content of imagination is the ideal against which one measures the real; one imagines some ideal world. The real is that which is true apart from how one imagines the world to be, one’s ideal world.

There is, however, much that is true but which remains unknown – much that is beyond knowing. The question whether there is the perfect Ideal haunts human imagination. Is Truth the perfect Ideal toward which one’s imagination strives to know? Perhaps. In any case, one must imagine what is True in order to know the Truth.

As one's imagination is grounded in reality, one’s own ideal is more possibly real. The mature human being is able to distinguish the real from one’s own ideal. The faithful imagination hopes any act one chooses to really do is congruent with that perfect Ideal – such congruency is love.

The act reveals the faithfulness of one’s imagination. All action is subject to judgment – good being that which is to be done (ought to be done). Thus the prayer of repentance: “Forgive us for what we have done and left undone.”

OTHER à creation

à LIFE (birth embodied sensual function) àSELF à experience embodied sensual function à imagination à belief idea / idea belief à CONSCIENCE à

consideration perspective à expression BODY: sensual function

à communication symbolic à }RELATIONSHIP{ß OTHER