consciousness & human behavior role in working

differentiate consciousness

1. Human ValuesHuman Values
The Role Of ConscienceThe Role Of Conscience

2. The Role Of ConscienceThe Role Of Conscience
•What is a conscience? Conscience is a
special sense, a moral sense that is innate
in human beings.
•Conscience cannot be defined in terms of
what it is. It can only be defined in terms
of what it does or how it occurs.
•Conscience may be defined as the faculty
by which we determine that we are guilty
of a moral offense.

3. Conscience and ShameConscience and Shame
•We know our conscience has judged
us harshly when we feel a sense of
shame.
•What is Shame? The painful emotion
arising from the consciousness of
something dishonoring, ridiculous, or
indecorous (vulgar, tasteless,
indecent, and in bad taste), in one’s
own conduct or circumstances.

4. ShameShame
•Popular psychologist regard it as a sign of
emotional instability. Probably Rogers
because he would say that shame is never
appropriate; instead, the proper, healthy
emotion is always “self-acceptance.”
•Roger’s relativity theory spread to millions
of people.
•The time for celebration is not when
people lose their sense of shame, but after
having lost it, manage again to regain it.

5. The Shapers of ConscienceThe Shapers of Conscience
•Two forces that are essentially
outside our control are
1.Natural endowment
2.Social conditioning
Along with moral choice, shape
conscience

6. Natural EndowmentNatural Endowment
•A person’s temperament and
intelligence play a considerable role
in shaping the total personality.
•The person with a practical
intelligence (inclined to action as
opposed to speculation).

7. Social ConditioningSocial Conditioning
•Conditioning is the most neglected and
most important shaper of the conscience.
•Definition: Conditioning is the myriad
(enormously large numbers) effects of our
environment: the people, places,
institutions, ideas, and values we are
exposed to as we grow and develop.
•We are conditioned first by our early social
and religious training from parents.

8. Moral ChoiceMoral Choice
•Children’s choices are not fully
conscious acts but mere assertions of
will that express their inherited traits
or imitation of others behavior.
•Only in later childhood do we
develop the ability to weigh
alternatives and make reasoned
moral choices.

9. A Balanced View of A Balanced View of
ConscienceConscience
•It is not an infallible moral guide.
•Conscience is the most important single
guide to right and wrong an individual can
have.
•When circumstances demand an
immediate moral choice, we should follow
our conscience.
•When you have the time to reflect on the
choice we should analyze the issue
critically and consider that a different
choice might be better.

10. Some DefinitionsSome Definitions
•Ethnocentric environment is one in which
the group (race, gender, color, culture,
special value system, etc.) believes it is
superior to others. Results: less tolerant of
others.
•Ethnocentric people as children show an
inability to deal with complex situations.
•Culpability moral responsibility or blame