What a cool phrase! disputatio in utramque partem («debating both sides»)
You ever here of Hecato of Rhodes? Yeah me either. Found this neat article about his tackling of moral dilemma.
"Hecato first shows that a moral rule is always linked to practical parameters and that the moral calculation consists precisely in articulating all of them, without crushing it under the weight of the absolute value that is virtue.
Saying virtue is the supreme value is not enough, when it comes to matter of conscience: the whole question rests
in our balancing the burden that each parameter places on us."
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