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Understanding Moral Dilemmas

This document outlines the steps to take when facing a moral problem or dilemma. First, determine if you need to make a moral judgment or decision. Second, ensure you have all the relevant facts and consider stakeholders. Third, identify stakeholders who may be affected. There are different types of moral issues, including determining right from wrong, and dilemmas where options are conflicting. A moral dilemma requires choosing between options that are all morally unacceptable. Making the ethical conclusion requires considering available information while avoiding oversimplification, as cultivating moral judgment is an ongoing process.

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Understanding Moral Dilemmas

This document outlines the steps to take when facing a moral problem or dilemma. First, determine if you need to make a moral judgment or decision. Second, ensure you have all the relevant facts and consider stakeholders. Third, identify stakeholders who may be affected. There are different types of moral issues, including determining right from wrong, and dilemmas where options are conflicting. A moral dilemma requires choosing between options that are all morally unacceptable. Making the ethical conclusion requires considering available information while avoiding oversimplification, as cultivating moral judgment is an ongoing process.

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MORAL PROBLEMS

Any problem that involves a choice between


two possibilities
First step : Determine our level of
involvement in the case at hand
- Do we need to make a moral decision in a situation that needs
action on our part ?

- Do we need to determine the right thing to do in a particular


situation being discussed ?

In this situation we are making a “moral judgement”

But we must remember that it is not


necessarily to involve ourselves
Who is the decision maker
• Moral agent : A moral agent is a person who has the
ability to discern right from wrong and to be held
accountable for his or her own actions.

• The moral agent is the doer of the action

• Moral agents have a moral responsibility not to cause


unjustified harm.

• Moral angent is the maker of the judgement on a case


that we are not involved
Second step: Make sure all the the facts
Are we really facing a moral issue or not? o baka naman mema
lang tayo?

it must has a truly moral weight

it must strike the one of the core because it involves what is truly
means to be human

But we must also remember that we must set aside all details
that have no connection to the situation
Third step: Identify the stakeholder
• People who are potentially be affected by the
implication of moral situation
• Stakeholders also force us to give consideration to
people aside from ourselves

Do you know why ?


The psycological tendency of most us when we confronted with an
ethical choice is to simply think of ourselves , of what we need or
what we want, that that only important is what we “FEEL”
which usally is reducible to Kohlbergs notion of pre-conventional thinking.
TYPES OF ETHICAL PROBLEMS OR
ISSUES
• A) Clarify whether a certain action is morally right or wrong, where
the difference ethical theories or frameworks can serve.

• B) Determining whether a particular action in question can be


indentified with a generally accepted ethical or un ethical action.

• C) The presence of an ethical Dilemma or moral Dilemma


So what is Ethical or moral dilemma ?

What is “Dilemma”?
A dilemma is a situation where person is force to
choose between two or more conflicting options,
neither of which is acceptable.

But when dilemma involve human action which have


moral implication they are called “Ethical or moral
dilemma”
Ethical or moral dilemma
Are situations where persons who are called
Moral agent in ethics are forced to choose between
two or more conflicting options neither of which
resolves the situation in morrally acceptable manner
3 conditions that must be present in moral dilemmas

• The person or the agent of moral action is obliged to


make a decision about which course of action is best?
• there must be differennt courses of action to choose
from.
• no matter what course of action is taken some moral
principles are always comprimised

No perfect solution in the problem


Final step: It is the step that the indvidual make his/her
ethical conclusion

Reminders:
• Not all the facts in a given may be available to the
agent for his/her consideration.
• Some facts may eventually misleading turn out to be
true or not true at all.
• The moral agent must be able to learn how to avoid
seduction of surrendering to “blind simplification”
The responsible moral individual must forge on realizing full
well that cultivating one's capacity for mature moral is a choice
continuing journey in his/her life.

According to aristotle recognizes the importance of


continuous habituation in the goal of shaping one's
character so that he/she becomes more used to
choosing the right thing
THE END!
Presented by: Patrick Cano

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