The Ethical Question Analyser

  1. 1 Ask something real A dilemma from your own life, or one of the twenty-four here. The ordinary ones work best.
  2. 2 Choose two schools From every tradition the Atlas carries. The pairs worth reading are usually the ones that cross traditions.
  3. 3 Read them across The principle each applies, what it says to do, and what it costs — then the exact point where the two part.
Academic Skepticism Ajīvika school My father needs care I cannot give without leaving my job.
Ajīvika school Ethiopian Rationalism (Hatata) I want to move overseas and my mother is getting older.
Ethiopian Rationalism (Hatata) Cambridge Analysis My teenager wants privacy I do not think they have earned.
Cambridge Analysis Ibn Arabi School My partner wants children and I do not.
Ibn Arabi School Natural Law Should I forgive a parent who was cruel to me decades ago?
Natural Law French Spiritualism A dying relative has asked me to keep something from the family.

Choose a question, or ask your own

About the Ethical Question Analyser

Most ethical arguments are not disagreements about the facts. They are disagreements about which consideration should win, and different traditions answer that differently and consistently. A utilitarian and a Confucian looking at the same family obligation are not making rival predictions about what will happen; they are weighing the same situation on different scales.

This page makes that visible. Give it a real dilemma, choose two schools, and each answers from its own commitments: the principle it applies, what it says to do, and what it is prepared to give up to stay consistent. That last part matters most. Every school pays somewhere, and one that appears to cost nothing has usually been described too vaguely.

Underneath, the tool names where the two agree and the exact point where they part. Sometimes there is less distance than expected — Stoicism and Buddhist ethics on wanting things, Confucian role ethics and care ethics on obligation. Agreement reached separately by two traditions is a finding rather than a failure of the exercise.

What you will not get is an answer. The tool has no view about what you should do, and two columns that contradict each other cannot be read as advice from anybody. It is not a counsellor, a lawyer or a doctor. Nothing you type is saved, logged or published: your question exists for the length of one request.