Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts
Major
Philosophy
Date of Defense
4-15-2014
Graduate Advisor
Eric Wiland, Ph.D.
Committee
Jill Delston
Wally Siewert
Abstract
I defend the claim that there is a necessary connection between law and ethics. I do so by analogy with other social rule-based systems, such as capitalism. Most social rule-based systems are (in part) conceptually understood by the collective overall content of their rules. If legal systems, which are also social rule-based systems, are best understood in the same way, then the collective overall content of legal systems’ rules tells us how to understand the concept of law. One possibility for the collective overall content of legal systems’ rules is ethical content. If so, then there is a necessary connection between law and ethics.
OCLC Number
883656501
Recommended Citation
Sigler, Michael D., "On The Necessary Connection Between Law and Ethics: The Ethical Content of Law" (2014). Theses. 236.
https://irl.umsl.edu/thesis/236