The Relationship of Law and Ethics According to Tabatabaei

This article, by descriptive- analytic method, aims Tabatabaei's interpretation of law and ethics relationship and formulates this topic according to his words. corresponding to Tabatabaei's formulation of three ways of ethical life- which is called as public ethics, religious ethics and divine ethics in this article- We can say: there are three kinds and stages of relationship between law and ethics. At first, it seems that law and ethics play a common role and make human social- individual life secure by employing Constructional Perceptions. At second level, we receipt that law and ethics are almost separate each other; in this form, law is overlapped with religious jurisprudence, and ethics will be attached to extra- task behaviors. Finally, in the third kind of relationship, law is considered as common and popular rule of human secular- nature and life. So, this rule is finished and ended by human transformation to spiritual word.