COMM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Product Liability, Constitutional Law, English Canada
1 Sep 2016
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As explained in archie carroll s pyramid of corporate obligations legal obligations and ethical obligations occupy separate rungs of responsibility aka the are two different things. Questions about the purposes of law and ethics. The questions posed above is a difficult question to answer. This chapter first discusses nature of legal obligations it then contrasts the nature of law and morality and discusses how effective the law is a social regulator. This chapter will be a lot about contrasting law legal obligations with morality moral obligations. Morality can be defined as principles concerning the distinction between the rightness and the wrongness of actions. Ethics is the application of moral principles to act or decide in accordance with morals. The fundamental difference between the two is that in a civil code system disputes between parties are resolved with reference to rules set out in a large piece of legislation called a civil code.
