CONSCIENCE AND FREE WILL (SLRS)

This course will help the student to see ethics as a personal response to the universal call to holiness and to the common good. Students will read an overview of the development of conscience and how free will responds and interacts with conscience in the decisions they make on a day-to day basis, and as the world makes decisions that affect the individual, the community, and the common good. They will examine their own decisions through discussion and writings on their readings, media, their peer interactions, and personal beliefs. The course will rely on the Scriptures, selected readings from theology, philosophy, psychology, contemporary writings, and Richard Gula’s Moral Discernment.