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Kohlberg
- accepted Piaget's model of cognitive development, but rejected Piaget's
moral relativism
- rejected 'bag of virtues'
- based judgments of moral development on:
- Piagetian principles of cognition
- Philosophy
- Kantian 'practical imperative'
- Platonic justice
- "Morality is neither the internalization of established cultural values
nor the unfolding of spontaneous impulses and emotions; it is justice,
the reciprocity between the individual and others in the social environment."
- stages
- Criteria for judging moral development:
- choice: should be based on the more just one course
of action
- hierarchy: People are treated as ends, not means
- intrinsicalness: intrinsic moral worth and respect
for people
- prescriptivity: include responsibility and obligation
- universality: moral judgments not influenced by
who you are or the circumstances
- freedom: you can make moral judgments without appealing
to authority
- mutual respect: all persons treated with respect
- reversibility: think about morality all points
of view
- constructivism: should go beyond rules to construct
a principled moral position
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