Law is not the only normative domain in our culture; morality, religion, social conventions, etiquette, and so on, also guide human conduct in many ways which are similar to law.
Therefore, part of what is involved in the understanding of the nature of law consists in an explanation of how law differs from these similar normative domains, how it interacts with them, and whether its intelligibility depends on other normative orders, like morality or social conventions.
Indeed, art is more moral than morality, for morality tends to be bogged down in convention, unless it is the product of moral prophets, who have always been poets.
Conventional morality is characterized by an acceptance of society's conventions concerning right and wrong.
A child with pre-conventional morality has not yet adopted or internalized society's conventions regarding what is right or wrong, but instead focuses largely on external consequences that certain actions may bring.
My opinions were my own, developed without reference to God, convention or morality.
adjective: unrestrained by convention or morality noun: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable verb: grow worse The word degenerate has appeared in 43 New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 25 in "Sit Up Straight.
Following rules of morality, or adhering to convention are important for our social system to function smoothly, but they may not reflect empathy.
This ménage à trois simply pushes the conventions of morality aside as though they don't exist.
L'incoronazione di Poppea is frequently described as a story in which virtue is punished and greed rewarded, running counter to the normal conventions of literary morality.
