PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Clark Wissler
20 Dec 2012
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Taking a step back: what piaget & kohlberg have in common. Kohlberg says this transition applies to all moral judgement. Kids justification of judgement change enormously over time. Adult moral reasoning is very different from that of a child. The way we decide if something is acceptable or not is a conscious process of arguing with ourselves if something is right or wrong. Gut feeling that incest is wrong (not debating in our heads like well, it might result in a mutant baby, but wait, she"s sterile, so it shouldn"t matter, etc. ) We make moral judgements through decisions that are not based on conscious, deliberate reasoning in our minds. There"s something flawed with piaget & kohlberg"s approach. Avoidance of guilt may be a reason why we act morally. Suggestion 1: when there"s violence involved, we don"t like it. Suggestion 2: you cannot do harm as a means to an end.
