Moral absolutism
The moral law is not formulated, any written standard, but an expression of what. Among the general public and the general sense of justice after, that is, the majority of the members of a community that is considered immoral or indecent according to Therefore, it is strongly influenced as a quasi- collective agreement about what should be mandatory for the co- civilized beings by the views of society and the prevailing morality. It is therefore subject to constant flux.
The Basic Law uses the term " moral law " in article 2, paragraph 1, where it is defined as one of the three gates of the general freedom of action. In further German law is the " moral law " in various areas of law of importance, often it is a matter of criminal law and misdemeanor law.
Meanwhile, it is believed that, contrary to some instructions in Brockhaus, the boundaries of the moral law no natural borders ( no longer). The company is regarded as a primarily social level related defined space. The European Union has long been a laundry room, but - develops into a social community of values - not least by the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the fiscal pact. These uniform standards that are derived partly from the Bible, had earlier tradition in Europe, for example in the field of good manners, which forbid, for example, unethical legal transactions. In the understanding of the European Union as values and cultural community, the moral law defined in the Company on the basis of cultural boundaries which can roughly be described as European culture. Defined and codified in Article 167 TFEU, it was. Due to the international law -friendly part of the Basic Law and its emphasis on European integration in Article 23, the customs in a single European cultural space are through the open borders in Europe, more and more decisively, it counts when calculating the customs, no longer the moral feelings of the German people, but to a single defining cultural space in Europe or in the core of Europe, which can be characterized by the same culture, social connectedness or religions.
Decisive for the already existing general customs in Europe (especially in the field of religions) and the newly added common social standards and cultures of the EU are the example -added in large parts by the Charter of Fundamental Rights as a single contract and concretized fundamental rights in Europe, the extend moral law in the Basic Law on a European foundation. This emerging community of values , the Basic Law have now assumed by the existing formulation of the moral law in German constitutional law.
In Christianity (natural moral law )
The sources of the moral law also dine from the religions.
Within the Christian faith, the so-called moral law, and in further consequence of the natural moral law (including moral natural law natural moral law or natural law ) are, for example, in the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains (CCC, Part 3, 3 ch., Article 12, I, 1950 ff ): It writes the people the ways and rules of conduct that lead to the promised beatitude, and prohibits the paths that lead away from God. A close theological interpretation after the reading of St. Augustine and the reference to biblical passages, as in the Epistle to the Hebrews (10, 16), even limited to the Ten Commandments as a moral law.