ABSTRACT
Christianity has been able to add its own aesthetic force and its own theoretical justifications to this kind of humanitarianism. It is a common view among Christians that such secular humanitarianism as there is really just a remnant or shred of the full Christian conviction. Of course, there is very much more to be said at the sight of shattering grief than this, but it is one truth about the matter which seems to the author very often to stand out. There are, of course, many accounts of mental states in which conflict is all-important, with the result in terms of outward behaviour dependent on the result of the conflict. The virtue of concern-about comes from the vice of its opposite: both kinds of complacency seem to be standing temptations of happy individuals or prosperous societies. There is side to the argument against loyalism, one that would support common morality in an unrigorous form.
