Re: Stage 6's -- Adolescent Psychology Applied to Education

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Subject: Re: Stage 6's

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Kendall Nash

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Date Posted: 20:37:44 02/10/08 Sun
In reply to: A.J. Stich 's message, "Stage 6's" on 14:03:06 02/09/08 Sat

I chose to respond to your message rather than creating another because it was this very thing that was on my mind as well. I have a little different take on the notion of a level 6 morality. I too wondered why it is that Kohlberg had such a difficult time finding people who reasoned consistently at this level. The more I think about it the more I wonder if it might just be because these people don't exist. What I mean is to say that it could very well be that to reason morally at level 6 sounds good theoretically but is just not practical in day to day living. I wonder if someone reasoned in such a way all the time if that person would be so void of emotion that no one could stand to be around him. Which brought me to possibly one of the most stanch criticisms of Kohlberg's theory and that is the absence of emotion in our moral development. Not that we fully make all our decisions based upon emotion or even that we should but rather recognizing that as humans we are emotional beings. Take for example the Heinz analogy. To think of a human being that could come to such a decision completely void of emotion under those circumstances is far fetched in my opinion. As great as Martin Luther King, Ghandi, and Buhto were I am not sure that they would even be able to live up to such high standards and if they had, I don't know that they would have been considered so great. Even Christ himself showed a great deal of emotion. Although if there ever was a person who could make such moral decissions completely seperate from their emotion, I suppose it would be God incarnate!

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