BLAW 368 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: David Foster Wallace, Deontological Ethics
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Post examthis is water video by david foster wallace. Conscious awarenessprof thinks its like a concept of wisdom because you get to enjoy your life prior to death. Moral development is the gradual development of an individual"s concept of right or wrong- conscious, religious values, social attitudes and certain behavior. This theory is a stage theory; in other words, everyone goes through the stages sequentially without skipping any stage. However, movement through these stages are not natural, that is people do not automatically move from one stage to the next as they mature. In stage development, movement occurs when a person notices inadequacies in his or her present way of coping with a given moral dilemma. According to stage theory, people cannot understand moral reasoning more than one stage ahead of their own. For example, a person in stage 1 can understand stage 2 reasoning but nothing beyond that(important) Conventional moral development (this is the norm i. e. conventional)
