The ethics whose teleological suspension is at issue in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling is the secular ethics of his own time. This secular ethics is the ethical that is contrasted with the aesthetic in his Either/Or. Scholars disagree about the relative importance of the Kantian and Hegelian strands in ethics thus conceived.I This is also the first ethics spoken of in the introduction to The Concept of Anxiety. Vigilius Haufniensis, the pseudonymous author of that work, tells us that “the first ethics was shipwrecked on the sinfulness of the single individual” (CA 20). It is only the second ethics, he goes on to say, that can deal with the manifestation of sin (CA 21). For Kierkegaard, the second ethics is a distinctively Christian ethics. His most thorough treatment of this ethics occurs in Works of Love. According to Bruce Kirmmse, this book is Kierkegaard's “major ethical work and one of the most important works in his entire authorship,” and it contains “his clearest and starkest formulation of a Christian ethics.” Hence most of this essay will be devoted to a discussion of Works of Love. Kierkegaard, however, writing under the pseudonym of Anti-Climacus, also treats Christian ethics from a somewhat different perspective in Practice in Christianity, and this essay will have something to say about that book as well.