Moral dilemmas and aporias are the core terrain of practical ethics in multiple traditions

Evidence

Professor Matilal also suggested that the moral dilemma was the most important terrain for the exercise of this type of practical ethics as encountered in the Indie tradition. Freud’s recognition of the aporia between terminable and interminable analyses resonated with this suggestion. … As I will attempt to show in my reading of Ovid, it is a tale of the aporia between self-knowledge and knowledge for others. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1456

Categorization

• XREF: The privileging of aporia over resolution parallels the reader’s strategic-essentialism problem: the bind between self-knowledge and knowledge-for-others echoes the question of whether ironic identity can be held without collapsing. — connects to: Moral education programs aim to raise moral reasoning via dilemma discussions — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2677; Articulated moral rule systems inevitably generate internal rule conflicts — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 220

Broader Connections

• Articulated moral rule systems inevitably generate internal rule conflicts #exemplifies (0.78) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 220
• Moral education programs aim to raise moral reasoning via dilemma discussions #expands (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2677