ABSTRACT

This book, a review of the psychological literatures with allied traditions in ethics, emphasizes parenting and educational strategies for influencing moral behavior, reasoning, and character development and charts a line of research for the "post-Kohlbergian era" in moral psychology.

chapter 1|15 pages

Piaget’s Theory: Stage and Structure

chapter 2|25 pages

Piaget’s Moral Judgment of the Child

chapter 3|18 pages

Kohlberg’s Theory: An Overview

chapter 4|34 pages

Kohlberg’s Stage Theory

chapter 6|24 pages

Domains of Social Knowledge

chapter 8|18 pages

Positive Justice and Prosocial Reasoning

chapter 9|30 pages

Prosocial Behavior

chapter 10|19 pages

Moral Traits and the Moral Personality

chapter 11|11 pages

The Moral Personality: Socioanalytic Theory

chapter 12|13 pages

The Moral Self

chapter |7 pages

Postscript