[lit-ideas] Re: virtue-practical example of being taught
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:30:17 -0330
Quoting Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Most teachers were found to be in Kohlberg's fourth stage, which
> (without my checking) has to do with doing the right thing because "what
> will others think of me if I don't?" Not a pretty showing....
> US in NB
>
W: Which is why reputable Faculties and Schools of Education offer courses in
moral ed and philosophy (amongst other things).
Walter Okshevsky
Faculty of Education/Department of Philosophy
Memorial U
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> Stan Spiegel wrote:
>
> > In graduate
> >school I once took a course with Lawrence Kohlberg at Harvard on his stage
> >theory of moral development -- and found myself electrified by the material
> >and where I found myself at times in the different stages.
> >
> >For example, I remember at the time highway speed limits were 55 mph.
> >Applying Kohlberg's stage theory, one person goes 55 to avoid getting
> >stopped by a cop (a lower level of development: avoiding punishment);
> >another goes 55 because he gets better mileage than at 70 ( a little higher
> >level of development); a third person goes 55 because its safer at 55 than
> >at 70 for his passengers and the other cars on the road.
> >
> >
>
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