Critically Analysing Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg’s Moral Development Theory

Ishaan Deepak Joshi, MIT-WPU, Faculty of Law

ABSTRACT

Dr. Kohlberg revered Piaget's methodology for investigating children's ethical conceptions. Kohlberg regarded children as ethicists, whereas Piaget viewed them as miniature logicians. Kohlberg considered that it was impossible to investigate moral comprehension without also addressing ideology, or more precisely, the question of what morality could possibly entail. Briefly, Kohlberg evaluated virtue by posing questions to contemplate moral questions – circumstances wherein right and incorrect behaviours are not always obvious. He really wasn't preoccupied about if the children deemed certain actions to be right or incorrect, but rather with one‘s rationale – how they came to their findings.