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Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

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Kohlberg's stages of moral development is a theory holding that moral reasoning develops through six stages grouped into three levels, pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional, each stage more adequate than the last at responding to moral dilemmas.

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Moral reasoning develops through six stages, each more adequate than the last at responding to moral dilemmas, grouped into three levels: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional. 1
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1958 1
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1. Wikipedia: Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
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The six stages of moral development occur in phases of pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional morality.
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1. Wikipedia: Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
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Kohlberg began work on this topic as a psychology graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1958 and expanded upon the theory throughout his life.
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