5-1 Discussion Moral Development
After reading the study The Development of Children's Orientations Toward Moral, Social, and Personal Orders, I
agree with Lawrence Kohlberg’s views on moral development. Many researchers were persuaded by Kohlberg to
take morality seriously as a subject that deals with how individuals think about how to interact and relate with
each other as well as the organization of social systems (Turiel, E., 2008). According to Kohlberg's view, moral
development progresses in a concatenation of stages.
Through these stages of development, organized thought and behavior structures that result from a person's
interactions with their social environment are transformed (Turiel, E., & Rothman, G. R., 1972).
Serving as the foundation of moral behavior, moral reasoning develops in six distinguishable stages, grouped into
three levels of morality that are used in response to moral dilemmas. These three levels of morality are pre-
conventional, conventional, and post-conventional morality. According to Kohlberg, each stage is amalgamated but
also different from the previous stage; therefore, the stages cannot be skipped because they provide new and
necessary perspectives.
The first two stages of moral development make up the pre-conventional level, which is concerned only with the
self, egocentrically (Turiel, E., & Rothman, G. R., 1972). Although it can be exhibited in adulthood, this level of
