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The paper concentrates on Karel Statečný’s contribution to the field of moral theology and ethics. It evaluates the current discourse on Statečný’s life and work, his activity in the Department of Moral Theology in České Budějovice and his attempt to establish a new concept of ethics. Finally, it sets out a hypothesis regarding the persistence of the Statečný’s concept of ethics in the Czechoslovak Church after his death in 1927.