2005Medical Entomology and ZoologyRequires access

Law and Morality

Kenneth Einar Himma, Brian H. Bix

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Traditionally, studies dedicated to the relations between law and morality insisted, from a Kantian orientation, upon the following distinctions: law governs external behavior, morality emphasizes intention, law establishes a correlation between rights and obligations, morality prescribes duties which do not bring forth subjective rights; law establishes obligations sanctioned by power, morality escapes organized sanctions.

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Traditionally, studies dedicated to the relations between law and morality insisted, from a Kantian orientation, upon the following distinctions: law governs external behavior, morality emphasizes intention, law establishes a correlation between rights and obligations, morality prescribes duties which do not bring forth subjective rights; law establishes obligations sanctioned by power, morality escapes organized sanctions.

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Traditionally, studies dedicated to the relations between law and morality insisted, from a Kantian orientation, upon the following distinctions: law governs external behavior, morality emphasizes intention, law establishes a correlation between rights and obligations, morality prescribes duties which do not bring forth subjective rights; law establishes obligations sanctioned by power, morality escapes organized sanctions.

Key concepts: Morality, Sanctions, Law, Political science, Philosophy of law, Positive law, Law and economics, Sociology

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