Philosophers have been concerned with the topic of morality for a long time. Socrates is
referred to as the “patron saint of moral philosophy”(Frankena, 1963, p. 1). The moral …

The study of morality has been approached from different perspectives within several
disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and psychology. In psychology …

Morality is obviously a topic of great importance for humankind as it entails religion, politics,
government, societal makeup, and cultural practices. As is well known, morality and its …

CONFERENCES on morality and moral education tend toward the equaltime view, one
anthropologist, one psychologist, one theologian, one social commentator. The present …

Although the work of Piaget dealt with the intellectual development of children, and that of
Goldman with a child's religious thought, there had hitherto been no comparable book on …

This book represents the authors' conviction that interpretive, normative, and critical
perspectives be brought to bear in the analysis of moral development theory. From the …

Revisions in the theory and practice of moral development Page 1 A questioning of old beliefs
that moral stages can provide the sole basis for moral education and that moral indoctrination …

Morality is a central aspect of social life and has been at the core of psychological theories
for more than a century. The scientific study of morality poses enduring questions about how …

For 12 years, my colleagues and I studied the same group of 75 boys, following their
development at three-year intervals from early adolescence through young manhood. At the …

Since the concept of a moral attitude forms the basic building block of the social
psychological theories of Freud (1922), Durkheim (1906), Parsons (1960) and others, there …