ethical dilemma

decision-making problem between two conflicting moral imperatives, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable
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ethical dilemma

Summary

ethical dilemma is a type of problem[1]. It draws 326 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_problem category, ranking #4 of 17).[2]

Key Facts

  • ethical dilemma's image is recorded as Trolley Problem.svg[3].
  • ethical dilemma's instance of is recorded as type of problem[4].
  • ethical dilemma's subclass of is recorded as dilemma[5].
  • ethical dilemma's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D000098463[6].
  • ethical dilemma's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02mw3c[7].
  • ethical dilemma's MeSH tree code is recorded as K01.275[8].
  • ethical dilemma's MeSH tree code is recorded as K01.752.566.479.115[9].
  • ethical dilemma's studied by is recorded as ethics[10].
  • ethical dilemma's studied by is recorded as moral philosophy[11].
  • ethical dilemma's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11b6b38fyv[12].
  • ethical dilemma's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID is recorded as moral-dilemmas[13].
  • ethical dilemma's Quora topic ID is recorded as Moral-Dilemma-1[14].
  • ethical dilemma's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as ethical-dilemmas[15].
  • ethical dilemma's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2775890777[16].
  • ethical dilemma's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2775890777[17].
  • ethical dilemma's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2994541713[18].
  • ethical dilemma's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 210467[19].
  • ethical dilemma's IMDb keyword is recorded as moral-dilemma[20].
  • ethical dilemma's WikiKids ID is recorded as Ethisch_dilemma[21].
  • ethical dilemma's WikiKids ID is recorded as маедомски[22].

Why It Matters

ethical dilemma draws 326 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_problem category, ranking #4 of 17).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

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  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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