If a child takes another child’s toy, they may be doing this out of selfish individual needs – they don’t understand higher-level morality yet. They’re stuck in the preconventional stage. One of the most frequently observed behavior of young children is when they take a toy that anoth...
Although there are six total stages, some people never advance to the last stage. What is preconventional morality? The first level of Kohlberg's theory is called preconventional morality and marks a period beginning in childhood where an individual has not yet adopted the moral principles of ...
“…to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy…” [This statement influenced readers to see that lying government leaders were pretending to a moral sense they did not possess.][Subsequent commentary ...