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While law is a formal system of rules enforced by the state, morality is a subjective set of values and beliefs held by individuals. Law provides a framework for maintaining order and resolving disputes, while morality guides personal conduct and ethical decision-making.
Dec 9, 2016 · Moral dilemmas are an especially intriguing domain for the study of law’s potential influence. They are pervasive in the real world in the form of tragic choices or other harm-harm tradeoffs and are often regulated by law or policy.
Jan 29, 2022 · The Limits of Law. A central—perhaps the central—question of the philosophy of law concerns the relationship between law and morality. The concern breaks down into many issues, both conceptual and evaluative.
There is a temptation to see the law and ethics as the same – so long as we’re fulfilling our legal obligations we can consider ourselves ‘ethical’. This is mistaken on two fronts. First, the law outlines a basic standard of behaviour necessary for our social institutions to keep functioning.
May 27, 2001 · The task of justification concerns the question of whether people ought to comply—morally speaking or all things considered—with law’s demands. In other words, it is the attempt to explain the moral legitimacy of law and the subjects’ reasons for complying with it.
- Andrei Marmor, Alexander Sarch
- 2001
Is law just a matter of social fact? Or does it have some essential contact with morality? In this chapter we shall consider ways in which law may be thought to have a moral dimension. There seems little doubt that law interacts with moral opinions.
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Issues in the field range from abstract conceptual questions about the nature of law and legal systems to normative questions about the relationship between law and morality and the justification for various legal institutions. Topics in legal philosophy tend to be more abstract than related topics in political philosophy and applied ethics ...