ABSTRACT
The objective of this study is not to deal with the traditional interpretations of the relation between law and morals in particular, but to trace how eminent thinkers in the West and the East have attempted to analyse the motivating factors of social conduct as judged to be either legal or moral or both; and, in so doing, to inquire into the interaction of the community and the individual through historic studies and comparative investigations. It therefore implies a twofold aim in view: comparatively, to study those eminent thinkers’ analyses of the motivating factors of social conduct; and historically, to study how each one as an individual member is determined by his community and how he as an intellectual leader reacts upon it.
