The Conservative Soul - Part 2
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Blogger and columnist Andrew Sullivan discusses his latest book, The Conservative Soul, at a forum at the Cato Institute (http://www.cato.org)
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--John Kenneth Galbraith
Today, I see the left-right political divide as the base for this status quo of big government, over-regulation and state tyranny.
Man, you KKKonservatives are REALLY insecure!
Rather, a mature Christian conscience seeks to determine the implications of faith for one's entire life: "What is the good and holy thing to do? What is Christ's mind on this matter? How can I do God's will in my life?" (see Mt 5.38-48; Rom 12.1-2; Phil 4.8-9; Col 3.12-17).*4
The forbidden and the permissible are not the exclusive or even primary concerns of a mature conscience. A person of mature conscience does not ask, "What is the minimum I have to do? How far can I go in doing what I please?" These questions express at least a residue of superego and social convention.
By contrast, a person of mature conscience thinks of morality as a matter of real human goodness and reasonableness. For such a person, to do what is wrong is a kind of self-mutilation.
Judgments of right and wrong by a person with a mature conscience express more than early training or awareness of what is socially required. They say what ought to be required, what one will require of oneself if one is reasonable. To think of morality as an area in which one is made to feel guilty or as a set of rules someone else imposes expresses an immature conscience.
Conscience in a full and strict sense is an awareness of moral truth. Only at this level are moral good and evil fully understood and rightly located in the freely choosing person who confronts the reality of the world and human possibilities. Wrongdoing is seen to lie either in refusing to make the commitments and enter into the communities in which one might hope to be fulfilled, or in betraying commitments and failing to meet responsibilities once they are accepted.