At the end of the lesson, you should be able learn:
1. recognize and recall a moral experience;
2. detect a moral dilemma;
3 .identify the three levels of moral dilemmas.
2. DILEMMA?????
it is a situation where a person
is forced to choose between two
or more conflicting options,
neither of which is acceptable.
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5. When dilemmas involve
human actions which
have moral
implications, they are
called ethical or moral
dilemmas.
6. Moral dilemmas
■are situations where persons, who
are called “moral agent s” in ethics,
are forced to choose between two
or more conflicting options, neither
of which resolves the situation in a
morally acceptable manner.
7. Moral dilemmas
■are situations where persons, who
are called “moral agent s” in ethics,
are forced to choose between two
or more conflicting options, neither
of which resolves the situation in a
morally acceptable manner.
8. In moral dilemmas, the moral agent “seems
fated to commit something wrong, which implies
that he/she bound to morally fail because in one
way or another he/she will fail to do something
which he/she ought to do.
In other words, by choosing one of the
possible moral requirements, the person also fails
on others.”
- Benjiemen Labastin
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10. CONDITIONS TO BE CALLED A
MORAL DILEMMA
a)The person or the agent of a
moral action is obliged to
make decision about which
course of action is best;
11. b) There must be different
courses of action to
choose from;
CONDITIONS TO BE CALLED A
MORAL DILEMMA
12. c) no matter which course of action
the moral agent chooses, there is
always that moral principle that is
compromised.
CONDITIONS TO BE CALLED A
MORAL DILEMMA
13. 1ST LEVEL
INDIVIDUAL
LEVELS OF
MORAL DILEMMA
a person, or an individual, has two or
more moral values to consider, he or she
can choose one only, and choosing one or
the other will not solve the problem in a
moral way
16. EPISTEMIC MORAL DILEMMAS
TYPES OF
MORAL DILEMMA
There are two or more requirements that conflict with each other;
The moral agent hardly knows which one takes precedence over the
other
17. ONTOLOGICAL MORAL DILEMMAS
TYPES OF
MORAL DILEMMA
There are two or more requirements that conflict with each other,
yet neither of these conflicting moral requirements overrides each
other.
20. OBLIGATION DILEMMAS
TYPES OF
MORAL DILEMMA
More than one feasible action is obligatory
PROHIBITION DILEMMAS
All feasible actions are forbidden
21. SINGLE AGENT DILEMMA
TYPES OF
MORAL DILEMMA
The agent “ought, all things considered, to do X, ought, all things
considered, to do Y, and he cannot do both X and Y.
22. MULTI-PERSON DILEMMA
TYPES OF
MORAL DILEMMA
One agent, R1, ought to do X, a second agent, R2, ought to do Y, and though each agent
can do that he ought to do, it is not possible both for R1 to do X and R2 to do Y.
The multi-person dilemma requires more than choosing what is right; it is also entails that
the persons involved reached a general consensus.