PHIL 2260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Legal Positivism, Legal Realism
18 Dec 2013
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Lecture 1 on introduction of law, morality, and punishment. Morality: what people consider to be right behaviour, unspoken rules. One of the sources of law are religious texts (pre-liberal societies were often regulated by. Laws are written/spoken moral rules religion and the connection between law and morality weren"t very well established) For every law, there is a system of value behind it, usually implicit. World views can change: different laws reflect the world view. Law reflects the social order, values, and world view. Should and ought is very important to philosophy: not facts but what ought to be/what the world should be like. Description versus normativity: description describes what exists (ex, sociology) and normativity is what should be (philosophy) Morality and ethics essentially mean the same thing: ethics is a greek word, morality is a. Ethics and morality are the same thing at the first instance.
