Relationship And Differences Between Law And Morality
Relationship And Differences Between Law And Morality Though law and morality are different, they are closely related. Law is essentially a set of rules and principles created and enforced by the state whereas morals are a set of beliefs, values and principles and behaviour standards which are enforced and created by society. Two innocent truisms about the law lie behind much of the difficulty we have in understanding the relations between law and morality. The law can be valuable, but it can also be the source of much evil. Not everyone agrees to these truisms, and there is nothing inappropriate in challenging them, or examining their credentials. They are, however, truisms in being taken by most people to be obviously true and beyond question. In other words, they express many people’s direct reactions to or understanding of the phenomena, an understanding which is open to theoretical challenge, but has to be taken as correct absent a successful theor...