ABSTRACT
The ethical coordination of behavior forms one of the main classes of social coordination and the legal coordination of behavior comprises one of the subclasses of ethical category. The idea of justice is a general ethical idea. Ethical values are embodied in human attitudes and human behavior. In this way ethics become a social force. This is possible because the relation of men to values is not only intellectual, but also to a larger extent emotional, and the ethical convictions of group-members are generally similar. Conviction is a specific attitude of men toward certain mental objects: ideas concerning structure of the universe, of society, of a certain social group; rules of conduct; aesthetic ideals. Conviction becomes a social force insofar as it is group-conviction. The identity of group-conviction seems to be contradicted by everyday observation. The social origin of ethical rules creating their uniformity within social groups may be corroborated by the study of the mentality of an ethical nonconformist.
