ABSTRACT
By taking the historical approach and using the comparative method, the whole study has aimed to trace how thinkers in the West and the East have attempted to analyse the motivating factors of social conduct as judged to be either moral or legal or both. With the proposition that the individual is essentially a product of the community, and yet may by chance become a guide of it, as its undercurrent, it has also aimed to inquire into the interaction of the community and the individual with specific reference to the problem of morality against legality.
