Morality, Religious and Secular: The Dilemma of the Traditional ConscienceClarendon Press, 1980 - 168 pages This book analyzes the moral confusion of contemporary society, relating rival conceptions of morality with a wide variety of views about the nature and predicament of man. Mitchell argues that many secular thinkers possess a traditional "Christian" conscience which they find hard to defend in terms of an entirely secular world-view, but which is more in line with a Christian understanding of man. |
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Contents
Our Contemporary Moral Confusion | 1 |
Rational Humanism | 17 |
Romantic Humanism | 30 |
Liberal Humanism | 47 |
Two Secular Critics of Humanist Ethics | 64 |
The Dilemma of the Traditional Conscience | 79 |
Transition to a Religious Ethic Morality and Worldviews | 93 |
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Morality: religious and secular: religious and secular ; the dilemma of the ... Basil Mitchell No preview available - 1980 |
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