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- Thus, the law embodies within it moral principles, protects and guarantees fundamental moral values, and at the same time its fundamental force is given by its moral obligation. For legal rules to be effective, they must comply with moral standards that are accepted by their recipients.
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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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Oct 22, 2001 · Law and Ideology. If law is a system of enforceable rules governing social relations and legislated by a political system, it might seem obvious that law is connected to ideology. Ideology refers, in a general sense, to a system of political ideas, and law and politics are inextricably intertwined.
Morals as test of law: several jurists have observed that law must conform to morals, and the law which does not conform to morals must be disobeyed and the government which makes such law should be overthrown.
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Mar 7, 2019 · This chapter distinguishes three types of inquiry about law. It articulates the two conceptual views about morality and the nature of law that comprise the focus of this volume.
Dec 17, 2021 · Ethics as a discipline is concerned with what is morally good and bad, and right or wrong, while morality deals with standards and rules of good conduct in society, and law, as a cognitive...
It is often assumed that inquiry into the nature of law is quite different from inquiry into the nature of justice, for law is taken to be an observable social phenomenon while justice is an ideal standard. But it is also possible that the idea of law represents a moral ideal towards which the practices of law are oriented.
Sep 25, 2017 · It is intrinsically valuable when it constitutes the collective moral conscience of citizens, embodies an ideal form of communal life, and expresses the moral integrity of the community. We analyse all of these potential values of law and assess their moral significance.
