Table of Contents
Moral Reasoning
What is Moral Reasoning?
Jean Piaget, Barbel Inhelder,et al.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development
Kohlberg, cont.
Kohlberg, cont.
How measure moral reasoning/development?
The Defining Issues Test (DIT) by James Rest Heinz and the Drug In Europe a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that 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 to make. 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 began to think about breaking into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.
PPT Slide
Carol Gilligan
Gilligan suggests:
Gilligan’s Levels of Moral Development
Focus for Gilligan is on caring, involvement, connectedness, intimacy While men see issues in terms of justice, women in terms of care
Several books on adolescent girls
Praises and Criticism of Gilligan’s Work
But Gilligan counters:
Small Group Exercise
Escaped Prisoner A man had been sentenced to prison for 20 years. After one year, he escaped from prison, moved to a new area of the country, and took on the name of Thompson. For 18 years, he worked hard, and gradually saved enough money to buy his own business. He was fair to customers, gave his employees top wages, and gave most of his own profits to charity. Then one day, Mrs. Jones, and old neighbor, recognized him as the man who had escaped from prison 18 years before, and for whom the police had been looking.
Which of the following is most important? 1. Hasn't Mr. Thompson been good enough for such a long time to prove he isn't a bad person? 2. Everytime someone escapes punishment for a crime, doesn't that encourage more crime? 3. Wouldn't we be better off without prisons and legal system oppression? 4. Has Mr. Thompson really paid his debt to society? 5. Would society be failing what Mr. Thompson should fairly expect? 6. What benefits would prisons be apart from society, especially for a charitable man. 7. How could anyone be so cruel and heartless as to send Mr. Thompson to prison? 8. Would it be fair to all the prisoners who had to serve out their full sentences if Mr. Thompson was let off? 9. Was Mrs. Jones a good friend of Mr. Thompson? 10. Wouldn't it be a citizen's duty to report an escaped criminal, regardless of the circumstances. 11. How would the will of the people and the public good best be served? 12. Would going to prison do any good for Mr. Thompson or protect anybody?
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Author: Karen Bauer
Email: kbauer@udel.edu
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