ABSTRACT

Ethical experiences (moral and legal) are accompanied by the projection of peculiar and seemingly real conditions of subordination and obligation upon various beings. These impulsive phantasmata are to be explained by the peculiar character of the ethical impulsions already analyzed. In accordance with the specific distinction between moral and legal phenomena, the relevant impulsive phantasmata have a distinct character in law on the one hand and in morality on the other. In morality obligation or duty appears as a state of being unilaterally bound, while in law it appears as a state of being bilaterally bound: the obligations or the duties resting upon some are made secure in behalf of others and represent duties belonging to them as their rights.