Kohlberg Moral Development Kohlberg and Stages of Moral
Kohlberg Moral Development
Kohlberg and Stages of Moral Development �What is Moral Development? �What is a moral dilemma? �Kohlberg presented children with moral dilemmas and judged their moral development based on their responses.
Stages of moral development Stage Age Summary Preconventional 7 -10 Moral decisions are based on fear of punishment or a reward for good behaviour. Children focus on good behaviour as being rewarded and bad behaviour being punished. Conventional 10 People are concerned with how they are adulthood perceived by their peers and with following rules. They are concerned how people within their society will view their actions. Postconventional Few adults reach this stage Highest stage. People are more concerned with what is ethically right as opposed to what is legal in the eyes of the law. For example, maybe mercy killing is ethically right but an individual could go to jail for taking part in it. This is above the concerns of overall society. Not concerned with the norms.
Heinz Dilemma: Move to Three Corners � In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. the drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $400 for the radium and charged $4, 000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money and tried every legal means, but he could only get together about $2, 000, which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying, and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said, "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from if. " So, having tried every legal means, Heinz gets desperate and considers breaking into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife. http: //www. youtube. com/watch? annotation_id=annotation_762625 &feature=iv&hd=1&src_vid=Yx. J 07 kl. Mhr 0&v=5 czp 9 S 4 u 26 M
Move to a corner �"Should Heinz steal the drug” � 1. Steal the drugs � 2. Not steal the drugs � 3. Undecided
Carol Gilligan: View on Gender and Moral development Read pg. 123 According to Gilligan: Please answer the following questions and hand in. . . 1. Why was Gilligan critical of Kohlberg’s theory? 2. a)What is the main difference between the way in which men and women make moral choices? b) Do you think this difference is reflected in the way you make moral choices? Explain your answers. 3. Explain Gillian’s three stages of moral development.
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