postconventional+morality

= = = Definition: = In Kohlberg's theory, the level of moral reasoning in which judgments are based on an integration of individual rights and the needs of the society. HGD Chapter 12 p.317

= Examples: = Oscar Shindler, who paid money out of his own pocket in order to hire and save the lives of 1100 Jewish people; he did this and maintained an ammunition factory that did not produce a single usable shell for the Nazis, which personally cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars. This example show a human who chose to help people well beyond when it was convenient for him.

= Analogies: = The progression from formalism to realism reflects the process of assimilation and accomodation described by James Mark Baldwin, the cognitive change from concrete operations to formal operations described by Jean Piaget, and the change from conventional to postconventional moral thought described by Laurence Kohlberg.

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=In the News:= [|Morality, St Augustine, sex and our evolution] "It is well-known and often confronted argument on the religious folks to state that without some form of belief of a higher, benevolent power, you are without any form of moral compulsion to do good to your fellow man. They state that good moral values are derived straight from religious texts, and by default from the word, true and infallible, of some or other deity."

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