Daniela Dicheva
HUM 225
Professor Marek Suchocki
1/17/2015
Why should I be moral?
Law and morality belong to the spiritual realm of man, they are manifestations of conscious beginning. Too often placed between them insurmountable. In other cases, is identified by the morality of the representatives of the legal and moral philosophy. To clarify the problem it is necessary to identify both common interests and differences between the two phenomena. Otherwise, the level of spirituality, law and morality are creations of the same thing - the human mind.
Human reason unites two phenomena it they draw their metaphysics. Therefore, as two sciences law and morality are two concentric circles, the smaller of which is right, and most - morality. Kant …show more content…
Behind it stands the power of public opinion. Morality does not rely on coercion and voluntary compliance with its rules of conscious human right because it applies more skeptical conscious nature of man, rely on the intervention of the government when its requirements are not met, as required by the legislator.
Right reflect a more complex social relationships. It is a regulator of a higher stage of development of mankind. Therefore it is mainly related to public relations, public regulation of social relations. Morality mainly corresponds to the natural state of man, of his natural needs and natural rights. It is closer to human nature, while the right reflects its state-public state. The right in all cases, especially when it comes to positive law, is invariably associated with the state as the metaphysical to interpret its meaning.
It was also alleged that the legal norm reflects "an alien will," as opposed to the moral norm, which acts by inner conviction. So sometimes the individual is forced to the right to carry a foreign will. This will not always be covered with its own beliefs and desires. So the task of the legislator is to bring the utmost this abstract legislative will to the will of individuals, to increase the effectiveness of the application of legal norms. Perhaps it is customary to argue that moral norms are more of relevance (and effectiveness) by the law because they are mainly carried out their will of
HUM 225
Professor Marek Suchocki
1/17/2015
Why should I be moral?
Law and morality belong to the spiritual realm of man, they are manifestations of conscious beginning. Too often placed between them insurmountable. In other cases, is identified by the morality of the representatives of the legal and moral philosophy. To clarify the problem it is necessary to identify both common interests and differences between the two phenomena. Otherwise, the level of spirituality, law and morality are creations of the same thing - the human mind.
Human reason unites two phenomena it they draw their metaphysics. Therefore, as two sciences law and morality are two concentric circles, the smaller of which is right, and most - morality. Kant …show more content…
Behind it stands the power of public opinion. Morality does not rely on coercion and voluntary compliance with its rules of conscious human right because it applies more skeptical conscious nature of man, rely on the intervention of the government when its requirements are not met, as required by the legislator.
Right reflect a more complex social relationships. It is a regulator of a higher stage of development of mankind. Therefore it is mainly related to public relations, public regulation of social relations. Morality mainly corresponds to the natural state of man, of his natural needs and natural rights. It is closer to human nature, while the right reflects its state-public state. The right in all cases, especially when it comes to positive law, is invariably associated with the state as the metaphysical to interpret its meaning.
It was also alleged that the legal norm reflects "an alien will," as opposed to the moral norm, which acts by inner conviction. So sometimes the individual is forced to the right to carry a foreign will. This will not always be covered with its own beliefs and desires. So the task of the legislator is to bring the utmost this abstract legislative will to the will of individuals, to increase the effectiveness of the application of legal norms. Perhaps it is customary to argue that moral norms are more of relevance (and effectiveness) by the law because they are mainly carried out their will of