TY - BOOK AU - Leclercq,Jacques AU - Matthews,Ronald TI - Christ and the modern conscience AV - BJ 1251 .L43 PY - 1962/// CY - New York PB - Sheed & Ward KW - Christian ethics N1 - Contents; Chapter 1 How the moral question arises; The origin of morality; The moral problem in the twentieth century; Christianity and moral thinking; Chapter 2 Wisdom morality and code morality; The starting point of ethics; Wisdom morality; Code morality; Chapter 3 The moral imperative; Eudaimonism; The Stoics and the order of nature; The Christian contribution; Christian moralism; Kant and the categorical imperative; Antimoralism; The object of ethics; Moral obligation; Chapter 4 The ways of the good; The two ways of ethics; The problem of reduction to the one; The elimination of obstacles; Chapter 5 Ethics and society; Ethics as a product of the human community; The wise men's ethics as against social ethics; The duty of altruism; Chapter 6 Moral values; The law of unity and multiplicity; The law of the creature; The threshold of morality; The momentary and the continuous; Absolute good and the contingence of the means to it; Inner life and action; Creative activity; Indiidual good and social good; Suffering and sin; Death N2 - Translation of Saisir la vie a pleines mains ER -