Law, Language and Morals

Morals and the Criminal Law

Validity and Obligation in Natural Law Theory : Does Finnis Come Too Close to Positivism ?

The relation between law and morality is a point of contention amongst legal philosophers. There are several issues: first, the extent to which law should incorporate moral standards; second, the effect of moral status on legal validity (the "validity question"); third, the effect of legal validity on the obligation created by the law (the "obedience question"). Because most positivists concede...

Refused Blood Transfusion: An Ultimate Challenge for Law and Morals, The;Note

Law, morals, and medicine: a method of approach to current problems.

The dilemma of science and morals.

The conflicts between science and morals which still continue to arise despite the apparent hegemony of atheistic scientism over traditional Judeo-Christianity in the twentieth century reflect a basic contradiction in the metaphysical foundation of Western lives. As was set forth by Machiavelli, the contradiction inherent in Western ethics is that it is based on the simultaneous belief in both ...