PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Reasoning, Social Environment, Order Type
10 Jan 2017
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November 14, 2016
Level 3: Post-Conventional Morality
Convention moral reasoning – viewing one as a member of a group and using the group as reference of
what is moral or immoral
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Post-conventional moral reasoning:
- Represents more of a hoax than a reality
- Know that there something bigger than the rules of society
- Cultures rules and laws are unjust and unfair
- Start to make your own judgments about what you think your society should be like – you need
to be able to think abstractly to do this
- What would my Canada look like?
- Start to engage in the idea of social contract – everyone should be treated with justice and
respect
o Has to make society better
- Stage 5: Social Contract Orientation
o 14% of people get there
o You realize that rules and laws and regulations are actually important – but sometimes
they’e og
▪ “oeties las do’t ensure fairness
▪ If they’e ufai I’ going to question it
▪ Try to change them
▪ But democratic processes must be adhered to – ae’t goig to eak the la to
ensure fairness and justice for everyone
▪ If you have lots of people in your society, you need structure which is why rules
are important but you are allowed to try to ake a hage as log as it’s in an
appropriate way
- Stage 6: universal ethical principles
o Accept that the quest for social justice can force you to break from the democratic
process
o This old is’t the old I at to lie i ad potest does’t ok, you ay egage i
something different
o Gandhi and Martin Luther King did this
▪ Went to jail for higher moral principles
o Usually when asked if the a stealig the dug to sae his ife’s life is wrong (Heinz):
▪ I do’t faour breaking of law – but it seems like he had to do it because
soeoe’s asi ight to life as at isk
▪ Breaking law to save a human
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