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The force of social habit or _sittlichkeit_, "less than legal and more than merely moral, and sufficient in the vast majority of the events of daily life, to secure observance of general standards of conduct without any question of resort to force."
The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade John Mavrogordato
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The sittlichkeit compels resort to courts and obedience to their decisions rather than resort to self-redress by duel or violence.
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Thus Hegel, deviating from the ordinary usage of language, distinguishes morality [moralität] from customariness [sittlichkeit], conceiving the former as the merely subjective and individual morality, and the latter as civic or social morality.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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