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Dr Kohlebergs Theory of Moral Development
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I appologize for the quality of my voice, I am suffering from seasonal allergies. • • Source links: • http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/k... • http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis... • http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/k... • • • This is not my usual subject matter. I do have a little education in childhood development and I made this video because I felt it would be a useful tool when analyzing the motives and perspectives of Creationists and others. I hope this can be a useful tool to do so. I am planning on referring to it briefly in a future video. • • Dr. Kohlberg described moral development from inward focus, to societal focus, to an individuality focus. His theory was inspired by the work of Jean Piaget and a fascination with children's reactions to moral dilemmas. Piaget wrote of the dramatic change in a childs basis for making moral decisions. Initially, children view rules as simple and inflexible. Once they reach the age of ten, their views begin to take on greater complexity. Kohlberg used the Heinz Dilemma in his original research. It gives an example of each of the six stages perceptions to an ethical dilemma. • • • A woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $ 1,000, which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said, No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it. So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife. Should Heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the drug for his wife? Why or why not? • • Stage one (obedience): Heinz should not steal the medicine because he will consequently be put in prison which will mean he is a bad person. Or: Heinz should steal the medicine because it is only worth $200 and not how much the druggist wanted for it; Heinz had even offered to pay for it and was not stealing anything else. • • Stage two (self-interest): Heinz should steal the medicine because he will be much happier if he saves his wife, even if he will have to serve a prison sentence. Or: Heinz should not steal the medicine because prison is an awful place, and he would probably languish over a jail cell more than his wife's death. • • Stage three (conformity): Heinz should steal the medicine because his wife expects it; he wants to be a good husband. Or: Heinz should not steal the drug because stealing is bad and he is not a criminal; he tried to do everything he could without breaking the law, you cannot blame him. • • Stage four (law-and-order): Heinz should not steal the medicine because the law prohibits stealing, making it illegal. Or: Heinz should steal the drug for his wife but also take the prescribed punishment for the crime as well as paying the druggist what he is owed. Criminals cannot just run around without regard for the law; actions have consequences. • • Stage five (human rights): Heinz should steal the medicine because everyone has a right to choose life, regardless of the law. Or: Heinz should not steal the medicine because the scientist has a right to fair compensation. Even if his wife is sick, it does not make his actions right. • • Stage six (universal human ethics): Heinz should steal the medicine, because saving a human life is a more fundamental value than the property rights of another person. Or: Heinz should not steal the medicine, because others may need the medicine just as badly,
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