THEO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Critical Consciousness, Moral Responsibility, Consumerism
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Addition of 7 social sins represents a shift in how to understand ourselves in relation to the world and to god. Process: train it to become sensitive to morally relevant issues. Judgement: only once we see clearly can we judge morally relevant issues. Focused more on avoiding evil than on doing good . Focuses on the effect of our decisions (do good) The failure to bother to love, or the failure to know from another point of view. We probably sin more than we realize. We havent trained our consciences to recognize all kinds of sins. We are often surprised (and offended) to learn of more sins. People"s actions can become negative models for others, and can influence the way others view the world. One person cheats and starts a pattern of cheating. Collective sin: not the sum of the individual sins, but emerging sense of false value that transcends individual values (consumerism, conquest of evil)
