Moral Relevance of the Norm

Abstract

In the past, morality was not coercive, it was regulated only if it was intimately related to religion. Max Horkheimer said: “What could be called moral in the past were forms of conduct that could be guaranteed by religion, tolerated and desirable socially, but also essential to social behavior, but were arbitrary and not imposed by law”. In the section below, I want to present how the moral values merge with normative principles, how they influence one another and what is the relationship between the two.

Keywords

• morality; norm; system; conduct; behaviour