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Law and morals are two normative discourses (i.e., discourses on how things ought to be) of human action well established since ancient times. The Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles in the 5th century BC narrates Antigone’s dilemma (or conflict) between obeying her king and a royal edict (the law) or following her own conscience and complying with what was commonly considered good in her community (morality). Antigone chose to follow her conscience and was sentenced to death.
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ten Have, H., Patrão Neves, M. (2021). Law and Morality. In: Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54161-3_329
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