Law And Morality: The Different Aspects Of Law And Morality
Law & Morality
Introduction Law and morality are intimately related to each other. Laws are generally based on the moral principles of society. Both regulate the conduct of the individual in society. Morals are just good acts or behaviours. Moral rules are social rules that subscribe good human relations and human behaviour and might be subjected to social sanctions.
They influence each other to a great extent. Laws, to be effective, must represent the moral ideas of the people. But good laws sometimes serve to rouse the moral conscience of the people and create and maintain such conditions as may encourage the growth of morality.
Morality is a system of morals, like western morality and Islamic morality having slighlty different set …show more content…
There exist a number of conflicts among some western jurists that are leading to unvertainely. Many human relations and human behaviours that were considered to be sine qua non to the natural living of the mandkind and that were considered to be amicable social values are fast eroding. These phenomena are worrying scores of right-minded intelectuals. This is for, critically examine various aspects of relationship between law and morality in general with and added emphasis in these aspects and to make an expository study of the Islamic morality in specific with emphasis added to those moral principles that basically different from that of their western …show more content…
He starts with a proposition that there are certain basic values or basic goods which human beings follow or want to follow in their lives. He enumerates such goods as follows;
Life: it signifies every aspect of the vitality which puts a human being in good shape for self determinantion
A basic form of good knowledge: knowledge is of truth so one can speak of truth as the basic good. It is knowledge for its own sake, not merely instrumentally.
Play: it is engaging in a performance which has no point beyond the performance of it. It may be solitary or social, intelectual or physical, strenuous or relaxed.
Aesthetic Experience: this expperience is found in the creation and active appreciation of some work of significant and satisfying form.
Socialibilty (Friendship): Friendship involves acting for the sake of one’s friend’s purposes, one’s friend well being. To be in relationship of friendship with at least one other person is a fundamental form of
Introduction Law and morality are intimately related to each other. Laws are generally based on the moral principles of society. Both regulate the conduct of the individual in society. Morals are just good acts or behaviours. Moral rules are social rules that subscribe good human relations and human behaviour and might be subjected to social sanctions.
They influence each other to a great extent. Laws, to be effective, must represent the moral ideas of the people. But good laws sometimes serve to rouse the moral conscience of the people and create and maintain such conditions as may encourage the growth of morality.
Morality is a system of morals, like western morality and Islamic morality having slighlty different set …show more content…
There exist a number of conflicts among some western jurists that are leading to unvertainely. Many human relations and human behaviours that were considered to be sine qua non to the natural living of the mandkind and that were considered to be amicable social values are fast eroding. These phenomena are worrying scores of right-minded intelectuals. This is for, critically examine various aspects of relationship between law and morality in general with and added emphasis in these aspects and to make an expository study of the Islamic morality in specific with emphasis added to those moral principles that basically different from that of their western …show more content…
He starts with a proposition that there are certain basic values or basic goods which human beings follow or want to follow in their lives. He enumerates such goods as follows;
Life: it signifies every aspect of the vitality which puts a human being in good shape for self determinantion
A basic form of good knowledge: knowledge is of truth so one can speak of truth as the basic good. It is knowledge for its own sake, not merely instrumentally.
Play: it is engaging in a performance which has no point beyond the performance of it. It may be solitary or social, intelectual or physical, strenuous or relaxed.
Aesthetic Experience: this expperience is found in the creation and active appreciation of some work of significant and satisfying form.
Socialibilty (Friendship): Friendship involves acting for the sake of one’s friend’s purposes, one’s friend well being. To be in relationship of friendship with at least one other person is a fundamental form of