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- Not surprisingly, legal scholars have long theorized about the law’s role as a source of moral or ethical knowledge. Some empirical research on the potential for law to directly influence moral beliefs has also been done — but it appears to be scarce in the context of moral dilemmas such as the trolley problem.
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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.
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tended to neglect: Can our intuitions about moral dilemmas be influ-enced by the presence of the law? This gap in the philosophical discourse is set in sharp relief by the ample attention paid by lawyers — and by the public — to questions of how and when the law can influence moral beliefs and social norms. Think of Prohibition, Brown v.
1. Introduction. It is evident that both law and morality serve to channel our behav-ior. Law accomplishes this primarily through the threat of sanctions if we disobey legal rules. So too, on reflection, does morality involve incentives.
Sep 23, 2020 · We examined whether these groups’ decision-making patterns were influenced by (a) the information on the transgressor’s mental state, (b) the use of gruesome language in harm descriptions, and (c)...
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Dec 15, 2021 · Morality can, he argued, influence the law, but it is not synonymous with the law. On the other hand, laws against dangerous driving (or, say, murder), for example, are no doubt influenced by morality, but they are also part of social-bureaucratic order.
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.
Oct 26, 2023 · When people consider the effect of law on morality, they seem to be thinking about how law might shape the kinds of moral judgments that Gilligan discusses. But undoubtedly law also influences the other “stuff” of morality.
