We commonly call it a voice of conscience? This part of us who acts as guardian of morality about what we think, feel or do. It is man’s ability to know moral values and commandments and apply them in different situations in life. It’s like an “other self” that encourages internal dialogue. This dialogue warns, criticizes, reriminalizes or even punishes and tells us what is right and what is wrong. This voice is there to lead us in general to blame.
The voice of conscience is the expression of our inner authority, this source of authority has been instilled in us and corresponds to a father, a god, a religion or any other form of power that defines our rules of conduct.
- “Conscience makes us discover.
- Denounce.
- Or accuse.
- And the absence of witnesses testifies against ourselves.
- “.
-Michel de Montaigne-
The laws of conscience are born of habit; Those who accept and practice ideas and customs approved and accepted by the society around them cannot part with them without remorse.
Is the voice of conscience the ability to observe and evaluate our actions and speaks to us of morality, decency, and good customs. He looks like an inspector because his role is that of an accuser and for some people he becomes extremely insidious. In fact, there are those who physically feel this voice, a whisper in the ear that always points to the finger, threatening and attacking those who hear it.
We all become people who can live in a civilized society, because someone has taught us. As an old song says, “what you don’t say, what you don’t do, what you don’t touch. “Living with others, we cannot do what we want We must abandon some of our desires, in the name of a healthy adaptation and certain basic rules that govern the world.
Since childhood, we have imposed ourselves on a catalogue of moral conscience divided into two parts by a red line: on the one hand what is good and on the other hand what is wrong. Parents or guardians usually pass on a moral that has already been established by others. Thus, we learn to value good and evil on the basis of religion, law, culture, or any other set of principles that govern society.
Many of these principles and values are far from reasonable; are often based on prejudice, harmful fears or irrefutable desires.
Some people, for example, tell us that racial discrimination is positive, while protecting?The purity of a particular group. Others think that masturbation can drive a person crazy, in both cases what is transmitted is irrational and is still taught as valid.
Moral conscience is usually transmitted arbitrarily, in fact, parents and the world see it as a duty to help the child accept the moral precepts of society, it is not necessary that they really understand what these principles mean, but rather accept them and obey. For many, education means making everyone obey.
In some families and societies, especially those that convey principles of conduct that contradict reason, threats, and punishments are used to earn the respect and obedience of their loved ones.
This is the case, for example, of cultures where discrimination against women exists, their conduct is very strict and full of restrictions, so in some societies female castration or physical violence of men occur, which are subjected to constant punishment and punishment. to avoid insubordination.
All these moral principles have a kind of irrationality. Much of these principles are geared toward sexual behavior and the relationship with power. Many childhoods are a stage of indoctrination, where fundamentally the will of the individual is sought, so that he does not develop behaviors “out of the ordinary”.
Many people internalize these principles so deeply that they become adults of a calm mind; in fact, they even feel guilty about the possibility of challenging these precepts.
They feel bad if they question their parents’ behavior or the validity of building a religion. The voice of conscience becomes a persecuting and disturbing example that keeps them under surveillance and prompts them to punish the the rules severely if they break the rules.
One of the tasks of a healthy adult is to filter the values in which he was educated. Contrary to morality, ethics is a personal, non-rigid construct based on a more objective assessment of oneself and the world, through reason.
Ethics justifies actions through logical evidence and reasons for personal and social property, while morality is based on prejudice, that is, arguments that lead to an arbitrary type Why should it be?Why will he be punished in the next life, why is this normal?
At a time of so many stimuli, abuses and transgressions, it is very important to perceive one’s conscience in order to maintain the inner balance and not to act with disastrous consequences.