ABSTRACT
One of the ways of knowing a person or a culture is to ask the question: Who are their heroes? For, it is the heroes, these men and women who embody the best of our thought and action, who tell us what principles are deemed highest in a society, what actions most honorable. For Lawrence Kohlberg, there were at least two sets of models. He wrote about them, talked of them in conversations as if they were alive, used them as examples in his stage theory of moral development, and emulated aspects of each of them, we believe, in his own life.
