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Often appears with: sin, guilt, and repentance · sin subject · duty, conscience, and obligation · defiled conscience · conscience
Usually: argument (1) · injustice endured (1)
Aquinas introduces an objection-based discussion on whether conscience is a power, citing Origen’s description of conscience as a guiding spirit and noting that conscience is said to be defiled.
the power. But the object of the speculative intellect is *truth,* and of the practical is *good;* which differ in nature. Therefore the speculative and practical intellect are distinct powers. Obj. 3: Further, in the intellectual part, the practical intellect is compared to the speculative, as the estimative is to the imaginative power in the sensitive part. But the estimative differs from the imaginative, as power…