Дихотомията морал/право в контекста на свободата като етическа категория
The Dichotomy Morals Vs. Law in the Context of Freedom as an Ethical Category

Summary/Abstract: People are creatures that live according to different types of order. Two of the orders are essential and equally important, because they are not reciprocal. These are morality and law. We communicate and live according to our morals, but we act according to the norms of law. We need to differentiate between them, in order not to forget that our life does not occur in just one order: we live simultaneously in different ones. The norms of law are not identical with moral norms. This requires making a distinction between them and not confusing them. If we confuse them, the result will be tyranny. To avoid this, neither should be underestimated. Freedom is not identical with absolute autonomy or permanent sacrifice for others. The criterion of freedom is the importance of others in our lives. Their importance depends on the values we share in the communities in which we live together with other people. Our values provide the basis for the restriction of human behavior by the law and for personal self-restraint in accordance with morals. The right choice is not to oppose the two but to combine them. Today the dichotomy of morals vs. law means the following: in order to have law, we need morals, and conversely. Only then will we feel respect based on morals and ethics, not on terror and with terror.

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