Moral Dilemmas and the God of Christianity: Philosophical‐Theological Investigations.
My central contention is that Christian ethics should rule out the possibility of genuine moral dilemmas, where "moral dilemma" signifies a situation in which all courses of action available to an agent are morally wrong. The reason for the exclusion is that the existence of a genuine moral dilemma...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religious Ethics Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 10 - 45 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2025
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