Essays on Moral Development

Laurence Kohlberg’s three levels of personal moral development exist as a way to examine how people’s moral reasoning can change over the course of their lives. He classifies them into three distinct levels. The first one is preconventional, where people follow rules simply because they...

In my eye, whether it is state, organization, enterprise or individual, we should respect the value of human life. There are hundreds of millions of people on the planet, but everyone is unique to the circle of their lives and cannot be duplicated. A person’s...

Law has key links to justice which should be open to everyone in the same way. But unfortunately millions worldwide are derived from this fundamental right and sometimes it’s got to do with the law itself that at times fails to protect people despite, The...

I wanted to focus this topic on a specific event that happened on the 20th April 1999. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, aged 18 and 17 respectively, carried out the fifth deadliest school massacre ever recorded in United States of America. The two senior boys,...

Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg and the minds behind the Moral Foundations Theory explain from where morals come from, but to answer the question of the psychological concept of morality – how people determine what is right and wrong- the psychology of morality must extend far past...

Self-concept can be described as the development of individual identity and how children see themselves as separate from others with unique personality traits. The ages are meant to be general so that movement from one stage to the next is individualized and largely dependent on...

Theories with respect to cognitive ability and moral development by theorists such as Piaget, Kohlberg, and others point to relationships existent between cognitive and moral developmental levels and criminal or deviant behavior. Research studies that have been conducted over the years, primarily on juveniles, have...