Aspects of Truth in the Practice of Logic, Law, and Spirituality
Keywords:
Truth, logic, law, spirituality, ethics, and epistemologyAbstract
The main source of origin of morality and law is theology. While the language of morality appears to be different from law, but it is very difficult to separate both the disciplines with precision. Likewise, ethics without spirituality appears to be ritualistic. No law or legal system can be conceived like a mechanical system devoid of ethics and spirituality. After all law is a means to achieve peace and happiness for the human’s species. And human beings are not the end product of matter only. Spiritual sensitivity is required to experience the life and its phenomenon without reducing it like a mechanical stuff.
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