ABSTRACT
The scientists of different disciplines differ from one another in a large series of patterns of reasoning. The respective patterns of reasoning seem to agree with each other. Their social concepts seem to be coherent in themselves and with regard to each other. Our results can be summarized by the claim that for the natural and technical scientists, science is a domain secluded in itself, which is detached distinctly from other domains. Scientific disciplines can be differentiated according to various criteria. The criterion refers the activity of those who are engaged in any scientific discipline. It is to be proposed that scientists of different disciplines have diverse social concepts of morality and that their conceptions of science and morality are in agreement. The reconstruction of Kohlberg's moral stages proposed proceeds from the assumption that different kinds of belief in legitimation underlie the moral stages.
