ABSTRACT
‘Making a Moral Choice’, the 1985 Ryerson Open College radio series out of which this book developed, was essentially a philosophical study of moral dilemmas. In order for a dilemma to be real for a particular individual he or she had to accept both of the conflicting values. If both alternatives did not have an equally strong claim for someone, he or she would not see the situation as a moral dilemma. Often there was an emotive component to an individual’s response which strongly affected the way a dilemma was perceived and resolved. This is the subjective side of the dilemma. For example, moral dilemmas have been used by philosophers like F.H. Bradley to help us understand the dynamics of moral development. Genuine moral dilemmas always contain a theoretical as well as a practical contradiction at their core. Theoretical and practical ethics are mutually dependent.
