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Showing posts with label dilemmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dilemmas. Show all posts
Thursday, October 10, 2024

A really bad moral dilemma

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Here would be a really bad kind of moral dilemma: It is certain that unless you murder one innocent person now, you will freely become a m...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Real dilemmas, alas

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I’ve been trying to avoid holding there are real moral dilemmas—ones where one is genuinely morally required to do something and to abstain ...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Natural Law and the problem of contradictory moral norms

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Given a Natural Law ethic, we could imagine a type of creature whose nature is such that even under normal circumstances, it is subject to i...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Another dilemma?

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Following up on my posts ( this and this ) regarding puzzles generated by moral uncertainty, here is another curious case. Dr. Alice Kowal...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Real dilemmas and conscience

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Some people—notably, St. Thomas—think that you can have real dilemmas, ones where you are obligated to do each of two incompatible act...
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Elections question

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Stalin and Mother Teresa are running for Prime Minister of Canada. Stalin has a well-publicized plan to murder all the Ukrainians, of ...
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