Meanings
- no pluralrareThe state or quality of being dilemmatic; problematicalness.
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.
2016, Lisa Tessman, Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality, Oxford University Press, page 1801 more example
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.
2012, George Yancy, The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy, Lexington Books - A Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC. - Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UK, page 204 - no pluralrareA dilemma.
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.
2008, Mark Mazower, Networks of Power in Modern Greece: Essays in Honour of John Campbell, Hurst & Company, page 250
Origin
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