From Natural Law to Legal Positivism: Understanding the Relationship between Law and Morality

  • Unique Paper ID: 192698
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 9
  • PageNo: 2098-2103
  • Abstract:
  • Law and morality are too vague to understand. The notions of law and justice can't be captured and presented before us within a few sentences. These notions are too vast that even words are not sufficient to define them. Many jurists from the ancient Greek period to the modern and even the post-modern era have attempted numerously to define these concepts, but have failed. One of the reasons may be that the roots of these concepts lie somewhere within the human psyche, which is extremely random and versatile. These two terms have a vast sphere, the reason for not finding any definite meaning of these terms can be that both these terms are dynamic in nature, with the time, situation and place meaning and value of these terms keep changing. In the present research paper an attempt has been made by the author to deeply analyze the true nature of law and morality, their relationship, their position in current scenario and the approach of judiciary towards the same.

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BibTeX

@article{192698,
        author = {Arona Mumtaz},
        title = {From Natural Law to Legal Positivism: Understanding the Relationship between Law and Morality},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {9},
        pages = {2098-2103},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=192698},
        abstract = {Law and morality are too vague to understand. The notions of law and justice can't be captured and presented before us within a few sentences. These notions are too vast that even words are not sufficient to define them. Many jurists from the ancient Greek period to the modern and even the post-modern era have attempted numerously to define these concepts, but have failed. One of the reasons may be that the roots of these concepts lie somewhere within the human psyche, which is extremely random and versatile. These two terms have a vast sphere, the reason for not finding any definite meaning of these terms can be that both these terms are dynamic in nature, with the time, situation and place meaning and value of these terms keep changing. In the present research paper an attempt has been made by the author to deeply analyze the true nature of law and morality, their relationship, their position in current scenario and the approach of judiciary towards the same.},
        keywords = {Law, Morality, Justice, Judiciary},
        month = {February},
        }

Cite This Article

Mumtaz, A. (2026). From Natural Law to Legal Positivism: Understanding the Relationship between Law and Morality. International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology (IJIRT), 12(9), 2098–2103.

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