"I am
a bit suspicious of any theory that says the highest moral stage is one in which
people talk like college professors." (James Q. Wilson, The Moral
Sense)
--------Original Message-----Hello,
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Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:31 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: Re: Kohlberg's Moral Development
I would like to interject a tangential (though not entirely unrelated) point.
I find Kohlberg, Gilligan etc. to be some of the least useful knowledge we impart in an introductory or developmental psychology class.
I say this because of the evidence (from Kagan and studies of those persons given a diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder) that knowing the difference between right and wrong and DOING right are not at all the same thing. Emotions govern moral behavior in most cases. The guys people who ran Enron surely knew the difference between right and what they actually did.
The Heinz dilemma is an absurd false dilemma. There are other possibilities besides "stealing the drug" and "letting the wife die."
Nancy Melucci
Long Beach City College ---
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