ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a dilemma. The writer is convinced, in principle, of the theoretical and empirical soundness, i.e., rational justification of Kohlberg's theory of moral development. Nonetheless he is skeptical about (a) the feasibility of moral intervention, (b) the nature of the effects and, correspondingly, (c) the wisdom of present applications of Kohlberg's theory to education. These objections, to be sure, appear somewhat contradictory. The doubts about the wisdom of application presuppose, in a way at least, its feasibility, and only if feasibility is given, may effects be problematic. Thus, my very objections may appear to defeat their intent.
