Moral Development Theory - Feelings & Moral Decision Making

Lawrence Kolhberg

Moral Development Theory by?

gradual progress

WHAT IS MORAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY ALL ABOUT?

It emphasizes the _________ experienced by the individual who in turn can only realize his or her own status of personal development after passing through a lower level

1. avoiding punishment

2. self interest

3. good boy attitude

4. law & order morality

5. social contract

6. principle

What are Kohlberg’s 6 Stages of Moral Development

Preconventional, Conventional, Post Conventional

3 Levels of Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

Pre-conventional Level

The norms of morality are understood through physical pain and pleasure orientation

Stage 1 - Punishment & Obedience

What stage is

• Motivated by the fear of punishment. A child will act In order to avoid punishment

Stage 2 - Individualism

What stage is

• One is motivated to act by the benefit that one may obtain later

"You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.”

Conventional level

Concerns are the values of family, of the nation, of the group, or in short, the society where one belongs.

Stage 3 - Interpersonal concordance

What stage where

• One is motivated by what others expect in behavior-good boy, good girl orientation. He values how he appears to others.

Stage 4 - Law & order

What stage where

• One is motivated to act in order to uphold law and order. The person will follow the law because it is the law.

Post Conventional level

An individual shows an independent attitude in his or her regard to values used to be prescribed by his or her society.

Stage 5 - Social Contract

Laws that are wrong can be changed. One will act based on social justice and the common good.

Stage 6 - Principles

This is associated with the development of one's conscience

• Having a set of standards that drives one to possess moral responsibility to make societal changes regardless of consequences to oneself.

FAKE

AUGUSTINIAN REFLECTION

Romans - City of Man - ____

City of God

St. Augustine - seek _______ - ends restlessness of the heart

Culture

DOING OF GOOD IS GREATLY DEPENDENT ON ONE' S _____.

Emotions

These Are constitutive of being human on personal and collective levels.

• Are momentary feelings; unsuitable to moral decision making

• Are unwilled and subjective; are fleeting feelings hence, there can hardly be accountability

Emotions

Conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral chances in the body

Emotions

PHILOSOPHERS convinced that _______ play crucial role in moral decision making

Blaise Pascal

Who said that:

"The HEART knows what the MIND does not.

• mind

• emotions

BLAISE PASCAL:

• The ____ is NOT the sole arbiter of what is right and wrong.

• ______ operate with precision and Consistency of its own.

1. Emotion is a hindrance and a help

2. Emotions should be guided by reason

2 schools of thought on Emotions