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The document discusses Kohlberg's stages of moral development, outlining three levels: Pre-conventional, Conventional, and Post-Conventional, each with specific stages that reflect moral reasoning. It includes a moral dilemma involving Heinz, who steals a drug to save his wife, illustrating the complexities of moral choices. The text emphasizes the importance of reasoning behind moral decisions rather than the decisions themselves.

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The document discusses Kohlberg's stages of moral development, outlining three levels: Pre-conventional, Conventional, and Post-Conventional, each with specific stages that reflect moral reasoning. It includes a moral dilemma involving Heinz, who steals a drug to save his wife, illustrating the complexities of moral choices. The text emphasizes the importance of reasoning behind moral decisions rather than the decisions themselves.

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''There must be a goal

at every stage of life!


There must be a
goal!''

ARAHANI, MERRY NIZA F.


"KOHLBEGR'S STAGES
OF MORAL
DEVELOPMENT"
Moral is a lesson that is learn from something.

Dilemma is a situation that requires a choice


between two equal alternative.
Can be therefore defined as a situation that will often involve an
apparent mental conflict in which each in possible course of
action will breach some binding moral principle.

Is a study psychology that overlaps with moral


psychology. It is also called Moral development.
In Europe, a women was near death from a special kind of cancer. There
was one that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium
that a druggist in the same time 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 $200 for the radium and charged $200 for a
small dose of the drug . The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to
everyone he knew to Barrow the money, but he could only get together
about $ 1,000, which is half of what is 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 it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the
drug for his wife .
Kohlberg did not care whether individuals said "Yes" or
"No", but rather he cared about their reasoning behind
their answer, depending on their reasoning, individuals
were categorized into one of the the three(3) levels and
six(6) stages of moral development .

Positive and kind words can empower, encourage,


motivate and help move someone towards their goals.
Always choose words that can heal not destroy
Stages of Moral Development
Based on the work if Jean Piaget

Moral Development follows as series of six (6)


progressive stages .

Three General levels


Pre-conventional, Conventional and Post-
Conventional
Rare for someone go to back to an earlier stage.
•PRECONVENTIONAL LEVEL 1. Punishment/Obedience 2. Mutual benefit

•CONVENTIONAL LEVEL 3. Social Approval 4. Law and Order

5. Social Contact 6. Universal Principle


•POST-CONVENTIONAL LEVEL
✓PRECONVENTIONAL LEVEL
Moral reasoning is based on
the consequences/result of
the act, not on the whether
the act itself is good or bad.
✓PRECONVENTIONAL LEVEL
1. Punishment/obedience
•Once is motivated by fear of punishment.
•He Will act in order to avoid punishment.

Ex: The child won't grab the candy at the


supermarket for fear being slapped
✓PRECONVENTIONAL LEVEL
2. Mutual benefit
What is motivated to act by the benefit that one may
obtain later.
You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
Ex: A mother tells her Child:
If you are quite at the mall, I will buy you ice
cream ."
✓CONVENTIONAL
•Moral Reasoning is based on
the conventions or "norms" of
society.
•This may include Approval of
others,
•Law and order
✓CONVENTIONAL LEVEL
3. Social Approval
•One is motivated by what others expect in behavior- good boy, good girl.
•The person Acts because he/she will appear to others.
•He/ she gives importance of what people we think or say

Ex: Volunteering at a nursing home is the right thing to do.


✓CONVENTIONAL LEVEL
4. Law and order
• one is motivated to act in order to uphold law and order.
•The person Will follow the law because it is law.

Ex: If you Drink and drive your endangering the lives of other on the
road not just yourself.
✓POST-CONVENTIONAL
•Moral reasoning is based on
enduring or consistent principle .
•It is not just recognizing the la,
but the principle behind the law
✓POST-CONVENTIONAL
5. Social Contact
• Laws that are wrong can be changed.
• One will act based on social justice and the common
good.

Ex:"Hey, how are you doing?" - A simple greeting


exchanged
6. Universal Principle
• This is associated with the development of ones conscience.
• Having a set of standards that drives one to posses moral
responsibility to make societical changes regardless of
consequences o oneself .
Ex:The Golden Rule: A child shares their toy with
a friend because they know how much they would
enjoy having a toy to share.

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