5.2 Laws,-rules,-regulations-and-conscience-as-sources-of-ethical-guidance
Laws, Rules, Regulations and Conscience as Sources of Ethical Guidance
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- Notion of Law and Inner conscience should be taken into consideration before any action
- Notion of Law - ordinance for common good of community, must be followed
- Regulation - concerns mostly individuals, source can be private authority like head of household
- Division of Law
- Natural Law - based on human nature, human reason can discover it, gives certain guidance on what is right and what is wrong, vague and general, it is universal and immutable,
- Positive Law - man made laws
- Civil law - declare repeat natural laws, clarify what natural laws contain, concerns issues not commanded/ forbidden by NL
- Effects of Laws
- Tells us what is good, imposes moral obligation, for common good
- Conscience - determines morality of human actions, judgement on goodness/badness of particular act