Damned If You Do Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture

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Damned If You Do Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture by Hrezo, Margaret S.; Parrish, John M.; Cantor, Paul; Johnson, Joel; McWilliams Barndt, Susan; Smith, Travis D.; Turner, Charles; Waggaman, A Craig, 9780739138137
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  • ISBN: 9780739138137 | 0739138138
  • Cover: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 3/18/2010

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Problems of individual moral choice have always been closely bound up with the larger normative concerns of political theory. There are several reasons for this continuing connection. First, the value conflicts involved in private moral choice are often reproduced on the public stage: for example, states may find it difficult to balance both justice and mercy in much the same way individuals do. Second, we frequently find conflicts between the values of our individual and public lives, such that the moral choice we must make is between the private good and the public good. Loosely speaking, choices that express these conflicts are what philosophers call moral dilemmas: choices in which, no matter what you do, you will forfeit some important moral good, in which wrongdoing is to some degree inescapable, in which (perhaps literally) you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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