1. CD 1: Moral Development

2. Theory of Moral Development Lawrence Kohlberg
Pre-conventional Level: morality is controlled externally
Stage 1: “Morality comes from power &
authority”
Stage 2: “Morality means looking out for yourself”

3. Conventional Level: one needs to maintain social order
Stage 3: “Morality means doing what makes you liked” Stage 4: “What’s right is what’s legal”

4. Postconventional level:Abstract principles & personal values
“Human rights take precedence over laws”
“Morality is a matter of personal conscience”
Stage 5
Stage 6

5. Problems with Kohlberg’s theory…
Girls tended to perform at a lower level of moral reasoning...
Carol Gilligan – believed Kohlberg’s theory was gender biased...
Gilligan proposed that women do not have a lower level of morality, rather...

6. Carol Gilligan
Women base their moral reasoning on the “principle of care”…
Men base their moral judgments…
Hypothetical dilemma…
Girls’ response vs. boys’ response