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These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Middle Class
Morality
Relative
Youngsters
Plain
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I have always tried to be clear that my states are stages of justice reasoning, not of emotions, aspirations, or action.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Action
Clear
Reasoning
States
Aspirations
Emotions
Stages
Tried
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For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
History
First Time
Human History
Increase
Morality
Principled
Proportion
Radical
Reaching
Seems
Time History First Time
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The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Defining
Legislation
Rights
Formula
Interfering
Pleases
Prior
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Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Society
Action
Defined
Individual
Individual Rights
Rights
Standards
Whole
Agreed
General
Been
Critically
Examined
Right
Terms
Tends
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The normative theoretical claim that a higher stage is philosophically a better stage is one necessary part of a psychological explanation of sequential stage movement.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Explanation
Higher
Movement
Psychological
Theoretical
Claim
Philosophically
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In our society, authority derives from justice, and in our society, learning to live with authority should derive from and aid learning to understand and to feel justice.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Authority
Aid
Derive
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If our psychology seems crude and weak in what it can say about the great human experiences, it is better to make that clear and to mark where we must go than to ignore it.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Clear
Crude
Mark
Psychology
Seems
Weak
Experiences
Ignore
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Insofar as each of us has been through the moral stages and has held the viewpoint of each stage, we should be able to put ourselves in the internal framework of a given stage.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Framework
Moral
Held
Insofar
Internal
Stages
Viewpoint
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Intelligence may be taken as a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of moral advance. All morally advanced children are bright, but not all bright children are morally advanced.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Children
May
Moral
Sufficient
Taken
Advance
Bright
Cause
Necessary
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It seems obvious that moral stages must primarily be the products of the child's interaction with others rather than the direct unfolding of biological or neurological structures.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Direct
Interaction
Moral
Obvious
Products
Seems
Unfolding
Child
Biological
Neurological
Primarily
Stages
Structures
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The arguments about parents being too permissive and kids growing up without superegos are not based on fact. Our research tells us that the family is not the only purveyor of morality.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Growing Up
Morality
Research
Based
Parents
Permissive
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The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number of roles and to encounter other perspectives.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Experience
Opportunity
Amount
Development
Moral
Roles
Social
Variety
Encounter
Number
Main
Perspectives
Seem
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At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Expectations
Groups
Individual
Maintenance
Obvious
Valuable
Nation
Group
Immediate
Regardless
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The first meaning of 'cognitive' for us is that observations of others are made phenomenologically: i.e., by attempting to take the role of the other, to see things from his or her conscious viewpoint.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Attempting
Cognitive
Conscious
Meaning
Meaning Of
Observations
Role
Viewpoint
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The crowds, the praise, and the power are neither just nor unjust in themselves. As they are typically used in the schools, they represent the values of social order and of individual competitive achievement.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Achievement
Crowds
Individual
Praise
Social Order
Unjust
Competitive
Represent
Neither
Nor
Schools
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Piaget is correct in assuming a culturally universal age development of a sense of justice, involving progressive concern for the needs and feelings of others and elaborated conceptions of reciprocity and equality.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Equality
Assuming
Concern
Development
Involving
Needs
Progressive
Correct
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It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Innate
Logical
Mature
Plausible
Program
Succession
Wiring
Adult
Functional
Evolutionary
Particularly
Hardly
Reached
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The unit of effectiveness of education is not the individual but the group. An individual's moral values are primarily important for society as they contribute to a moral social climate, not as they induce particular pieces of behavior.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Education
Society
Behavior
Climate
Effectiveness
Individual
Moral
Moral Values
Particular
Social
Contribute
Group
Primarily
Unit
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Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship... When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Democratic
Democratic Society
Moral
Preparation
Public Education
Social
Constitutional
Public
Essentially
Jefferson
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The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Application
Authority
Clear
Effort
Groups
Identification
Individual
Moral
Moral Values
Persons
Principles
Validity
Apart
Own
Define
Group
Holding
Makes
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If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas, of the big nouns, and believed that one's life was determined by the ideas of the true, the good, and the beautiful which one held.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Determined
Ideas
My Own
Platonic
Realist
Reality
Life Good Beautiful
Adolescent
Believed
Held
Noun
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The problem of moral change would appear to be one of presenting stimuli which are both sufficiently incongruous as to stimulate conflict in the child's existing stage schemata and sufficiently congruous as to be assimilable with some accomodative effort.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Conflict
Effort
Moral
Presenting
Appear
Existing
Stimulate
Sufficiently
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Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Consensus
Controversy
Definitions
Disagreement
Goodness
Honesty
Integrity
Notion
Actual
Be True
Great Deal
Virtues
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All individuals in all cultures use the same thirty basic moral categories, concepts, or principles, and all individuals in all cultures go through the same order or sequence of gross stage development, though they vary in rate and terminal point of development.
Lawrence Kohlberg / Psychologist
Categories
Concepts
Development
Gross
Moral
Principles
Rate
Sequence
Stage
Thirty
Vary
Basic
Cultures
Individuals
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