Ma`rifat

Abstract The difference between moral and legal values is that legal values are a guarantee for governmental implementation, and if someone's right is violated, government institutions are obliged to follow it up. In addition, these institutions consider some rewards to encourage those who respect legal values and the rights of others, but there is no such executive guarantee in moral values. The moral value of any action is based on the internal motivation of the doer, not the fear of punishment or castigation by the government. Also, sometimes some actions have two sides: moral and legal. So many actions may not be basically moral, but they have moral value if they are done with the intention of obeying God. This article answers this question: If moral values do not guarantee external implementation, what is the motivation for observing them? The answers given in different moral schools are reviewed.