Kohlberg_Stages

Kohlberg Stages Moral issues have been a fundamental issue since the beginning of time. Conflicting assertions and different opinions have created a topic of interest to many philosophers, researches, sociologists and many other intellectuals. Lawrence Kohlberg studied the stages of moral judgement expanding on what Jean Piaget, the father of moral development studied. However, “Kohlberg determined that the process of attaining moral maturity took longer and was more gradual than Piaget had proposed.” Kohlberg believed that moral development progressed as time went on, through as series of stages. Kohlberg identified six stages of moral development that he proposed humans follow throughout life. He groups these stages into three major levels. The first level, the preconventional level, “a persons moral judgements are characterized by a concrete, individual perspective.” Stage one focuses on the fact that a persons moral judgements are based on the fact that breaking rules that are made will result in punishment. In this stage, they remain obedient in order to avoid any consequences of an action.. This stage is based on egocentric behavior which is the inability to consider another person perspective. “At this level, the child is responsive to cultural rules moral, stages, development, pete, kohlberg, consequences, stage, punishment, morality, joe, time, rules, physical, level, labels, gilligan, first, fact, based, action, toy, studied, right, relationship, proposed, power, playing, piaget, perspective, persons, one, mother, life, judgements, different