kohlberg

• like piaget
• thought moral thinking develops sequentially in stages as cognitive abilities develop

concluded moral reasoning develops from simple to concrete to more abstract and principled

• preconvention
• simple logic

do right thing to avoid punishment

further self interest

• immature
• child like

• conventional
• concrete

• follow rules to live up to expectations
• concerned with being accepted
• right and wrong defined by wholes judging them
• peer pressure

• maintain law and order
• decisions based on law

• post conventional
• principled

• don't favor breaking law
• committed to talking to others and finding something everyone agrees on
• democratic

• higher stage
• people commit lives to justice
• higher law of the land
• transcendence of law
• aren't opposed to go to jail