The Moral Domain: Essays in the Ongoing Discussion Between Philosophy and the Social Sciences (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262231476 ISBN 13: 9780262231473

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1990

Synopsis

These 13 essays by noted American and German scholars provide a focused discussion of many of the issues raised by the integration of philosophical and psychological theories of moral development. The essays pivot around two key contributions, by Lawrence Kohlberg and his associates and by Jürgen Habermas. Kohlberg's major work was a description of the stages of development of moral understanding in children. This book contains the final formulation of his view of the end point of moral development (Stage 6). Habermas's insightful response to that formulation, which seeks to fit Kohlberg's perceptions into the framework of a communicative ethics, is an important extension of his own moral theory. In three parts, the essays map out the relationship between philosophy and psychology in the study of the moral domain, explore the way the moral point of view is understood within Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental model, and discuss the place of moral development in terms of various models of personality and decision making.ContributorsAugusto Blasi, Dwight R. Boyd, Rainer Dobert, Wolfgang Edelstein, Jürgen Habermas, Helen Haste, Monika Keller, Lawrence Kohlberg, Charles Levine, Mordecai Nisan, Gil G. Noam, Gertrud Nunner-Winkler, Bill Puka, Ernst Tugendhat, and Thomas E. Wren

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas E. Wren is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0262231476
• ISBN 13: 9780262231473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 444
• Editor: Wren Thomas E.