In this article, the author examines whether there exists a role for law in moral matters. She first traces the interrelation of law, religion and morality through ancient times, Hebraic law and ancient Greek law until the decline in the influence of religious doctrine during the Renaissance. She then examines the Wolfenden Report and the ensuing Hart-Devlin debates about whether legal prohibit...

The communist regime in our country imposed atheism on the masses. In a state where morality and common sense were deeply linked to religion (Christian-Orthodox, Mosaic or Islamic) concerted attacks by regime, following Stalinist model USSR of 1920s, emptied people's conscience any natural value scale. After Second World War establishment Romania, influence churches religious institutions publi...

introduction: this research is planning to observe the influence of sense of social security on doctors’ social health in tehran. therefore, it seems that there is a meaningful relationship among doctors’ social health as a dependent variable, and sense of social security of doctors as the main independent variable. also, piety, life satisfaction, social morality and assessing by others as the ...

Greif, Avner, and Tadelis, Steven—A theory of moral persistence: Crypto-morality and political legitimacy Why, how, and under what conditions do moral beliefs persist despite institutional pressure for change?Why do the powerful often fail to promote the morality of their authority? This paper addresses these questions by presenting the role of crypto-morality in moral persistence. Crypto-moral...