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The adage “dura lex sed lex” is popular in the world of law and jurisprudence.

It means
that the law is harsh but it is nonetheless the law. This concept has been adopted by the
Philippines laws and is the guiding principle on how laws are made and implemented today.
Philippine law has for its origins Spanish American laws, the laws of which belonging to the
these colonizing states before the Philippines was able they set up its own codification of rules
and legal system. It has, for the longest time, served the Philippine state and the public well. But
in today’s Philippine society, the law has evolved into a sort of detached system of structured
ideals that is meant to give commands to the individual and govern the populace. Most of the
time, when a person speaks of the law, it seems like he is speaking of commands, existing above
any man, and detached from the human experience. For experts on the law would describe the
same as the governance and regulation of human rights as opposed to other human rights. With
this, the reason behind the law shares a similarity with the core concepts of most philosophical
ethics. They recognize the truth of which man is situated, man lives in a world with others like
him and having the same rights and freedom. In this some sense, there is no such thing as
absolute freedom in the sense that one person’s freedom may encroach on the rights and freedom
of another. This is what philosophical ethics is grounded upon and what the legal system seems
to implement and implement .

But that’s where the similarities between ethics and the law, specifically Philippine law
ends. Whereas Hegel would argue that living the ethical life means grounding the same on the
reflection made on the object will of the collective consciousness, which simply means that the
ethical life relies heavily on the experiential and phenomenological basis of things, laws of today
on the other hand, have for themselves the authority given by state and obedience of the people.
While the commanding nature of laws is not necessarily bad, it still may provide a problem when
the law becomes attached from the human experience it originally was supposed to be based
upon. And while the efficacy and impact of an impersonal set of laws cannot be denied, it is
precisely its occasional if not absolute detachment from the collective consciousness may be
deemed problematic. When these Philippine laws are applied in a uniform manner, it so in such a
cookie cutter fashion that cares not for the individual it affects. In its unbiased form, the laws are
deemed impartial and is able to carry out the spirit of justice in order to make living an ethical
life for all individuals possible.

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