ETHICS AS THE SOURCE AND AIM OF LAW

Abstract

The study and discussion of Ethics in Law is nothing less than the reinforcement of the idea that it is the sun around which all legal professionals ought to revolve under the penalty of losing their most vital scope and foundation: Justice. Pondering human actions is the object of Ethics. Ethical problems include the meaning of life, human freedom, whether there is a manner of living that leads to a good life, the basis of duty, desire, the nature of good and evil, along with other questions intimately connected with human action. The static juridical dogma that was in force during the modern age no longer serves contemporary society, which demands a new challenge to Law, which is: to apply justice to concrete cases thinking of law with principles and values, as well as create mechanisms by which legal precepts may be adapted to new situations as they arise. Therefore, Law is to be praised in the socialization, promotion, and operation by which it effectively aids in the concretization of social and personal objectives, adapted to a political-constitutional philosophy and consolidating normative and theoretical advances that, if understood and applied by legal practitioners, will transform the aforementioned goals into reality.