Law and Morality- Q9

Question 1

What are legal rules/ laws?

Answer 1

-binding principles applied by a state in a democratic application
-address rights and wrongs upheld by a society and upheld.

Question 2

In the English system what are many laws based on?

Answer 2

-Canon law/ church law.

Question 3

What are laws enforced by?

Answer 3

-Authority

Question 4

Laws can be made instantly and ___ is expected to change instantly?

Answer 4

-conduct.

Question 5

Example of a law and how it changed conduct?

Answer 5

-The smoking ban under the health act 2006.

Question 6

What is meant by morality?

Answer 6

-An abstract concept of self held values and principles which encompass ones understandings of right and wrong.

Question 7

How does morality evolve?

Answer 7

-usually imbedded beliefs
-subjective and diverse depending on a particular society.

Question 8

How are legal rules and morality closely linked?

Answer 8

-Laws that have no basis in morality may be harder to enforce.

Question 9

Outline similarities between law and morality?

Answer 9

-what is illegal tends to be immoral
-dictate behaviour
-sanctions
-setting and enforcing standards.

Question 10

Outline differences between law and morality?

Answer 10

-Formal/informal sanctions
-laws binding and instantly enforced
-non-binding, abstract and slow changing/

Question 11

What is meant by morality?

Answer 11

-A particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially held by a particular society.
-acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.

Question 12

What did Emilie Durkheim identify as factors contributing to the breakdown of a common morality?

Answer 12

-specialisation of labour
-ethnic diversity
-secularisation