The Integration of Ethics and Law as a Task for Modern Regulatory Policy

Abstract

The paper analyzes the development of social regulation within two normative systems: moral and legal. It shows that the effectiveness of such regulation is not due to the merging of two types of rules, since they are very different in their essential characteristics, but rather to the ability of public authorities to establish “points of intersection” and interrelationships for those practical situations where the use of one type of rules is insufficient in terms of protecting basic social values. Three principles for maintaining a balance between legal and moral regulators in the implementation of innovations that affect society have been identified.