dilemmaticity

The shift in ethical thinking that would result from ethicists' attention to patterns of dilemmaticity is one part of what seems like a promising, larger shift from ideal(ized) (and alienating) theory to non-idealizing ethical thinking.

However, in systemically or institutionally constraining what would otherwise be good, morally endorsable possibilities, the phenomenon of oppression spawns what I take to be a special, systemic sort of dilemmaticity.

All attempts to exorcise the Devil based on a monotheistic outlook will ultimately reinforce the categories that produce Brazil's dilemmaticity and, thus, reproduce the conditions for the Devil's reappearance.