Child, Youth, and Family Studies, Department of
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
July 1991
Abstract
Abstract: We suggest in this paper that attempts to segregate social-conventional reasoning from the moral domain may represent an artifactual division, one that ignores major philosophic and psychological traditions and cultural constructs regarding the moral self. We address such issues as the individual, social, and relational dimensions of morality; the cultural context of moral development and behavior; and whether morality is solely a matter of justice, harm and welfare considerations, or concerned as well with culturally variable definitions of the good and the good society, with role obligations, and with caring and affective aspects of human experience. We conclude with a call for continuing narrative and anthropological approaches to the study of moral development in order to reach a fuller understanding of the multiple facets of moral life.
Comments
Published in Journal of Moral Education 20:3 (1991), pp 293-305. Copyright © 1991 Carfax Publishing Company. Used by permission.