Jean Piaget
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- Created on: 22-12-16 09:54
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- Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
- Swiss psychologist
- Maintained: all humans don't have the same conscience
- Train Journey
- Imagine your moral character is a train journey
- You begin life at Station A - You will end life at station C
- There are two types of people
- 1. First take the train but get off at Station B
- They don't complete their moral journey
- Their development has been stunted
- Incapable of developing beyond the early stages of their journey through life
- 2. The rest reach the terminus at Station C
- While en route their character & their moral sense has been allowed to fully develop
- 1. First take the train but get off at Station B
- Two types of conscience
- Based on whether or not has a fully developed character
- 1. Heteronomous morality
- Develops from an early year until the age of 9 or 10
- Other-based
- The child doesn't decide their own moral stance
- Decided from their parents or whoever controls that person's moral upbringing
- 2. Autonomous morality
- Most people continue to develop their morality
- They are mature enough to decided what is morally good for them
- Morality is a matter of self disciple
- Start around the age of 10
- Moral conscience - based on observance of rules
- Links with punishment when rules are not observed
- Some people never develop beyond this stage
- Their life his dominated by the need to obey precise rules of behaviour
- May look to God who is their ruler & judge
- Relationships lead to the development of a moral conscience
- At an early stage these relationships - based on social control & obedience to rulers
- At later stages relationships are more open - There;s an increasing awareness of the need for mutual respect and social harmony
- At an early stage these relationships - based on social control & obedience to rulers
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