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Moral Dilemma and Moral Sense: A Phenomenological Account
- The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 29, Number 2, 2015
- pp. 218-235
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In this article I argue that a phenomenological account of moral sense-bestowal can provide valuable insight into the possibility of moral dilemmas. I propose an account of moral sense-bestowal that is grounded in the phenomenology of expression that Maurice Merleau-Ponty developed throughout the course of his philosophical work and most explicitly in the period immediately following the publication of Phenomenology of Perception. Based on this Merleau-Pontian account of moral sense-bestowal, I defend the view that there are genuine moral dilemmas, that is, that we can be faced with situations of conflicting oughts that we cannot resolve without moral remainder.