Current research in moral development as a decision support system

✍ Scribed by William Y. Penn; Boyd D. Collier

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 628 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-4544
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00383566

✦ Synopsis

This paper argues that human beings possess the rational capabilities necessary to achieve the goal of more just and peaceable social orders, but that our educational institutions are failing in their responsibility to do what in fact can be done to produce graduates who make decisions in ways most likely to achieve this goal.

Data compiled by us, consistent with other research, indicates that only a small percentage of the individuals graduating from universities and professional schools have developed the capacity for post-conventional moral reasoning.

In this paper we wish to argue on behalf of four rather radical and not widely accepted claims. The first of these claims is that there is a capability present within human consciousness which, when it is developed and exercised, significantly