I would say that I am in the last stage of moral development, (and I say that while not trying to sound like I have obtained all the moralilty one can have). In this stage, people develop a set of universal principles. While I admit there are times where I (and most everyone for that matter) slip out of this stage into a lower one without realizing it, this is the stage which I tend to belong. I was suprissed to read that most psychologists tend to put philosophers Kant and Rawls into this stage. While I agree with Kant belonging, I completely disagree with Rawls being put into this group. Rawls wanted equality by unequally distrubuting out freedoms and liberities until, from his point of view, people were equal. I completely disagree with this mode of achieving equality/fairness so that is why I feel Rawls does not belong in this group. In contrast, I do belong in this group because I adopt the notion that universal principles such as the freedoms and liberities people have need to be the same across gender, race, and classes. Furthermore, I like stage six even more because I only believe in negitive liberities not positive ones because it is impossible to distribute positive liberities equally. These are the reasons I feel that I am in level six of moral development.
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I would say that I am in the last stage of moral development, (and I say that while not trying to sound like I have obtained all the moralilty one can have). In this stage, people develop a set of universal principles. While I admit there are times where I (and most everyone for that matter) slip out of this stage into a lower one without realizing it, this is the stage which I tend to belong. I was suprissed to read that most psychologists tend to put philosophers Kant and Rawls into this stage. While I agree with Kant belonging, I completely disagree with Rawls being put into this group. Rawls wanted equality by unequally distrubuting out freedoms and liberities until, from his point of view, people were equal. I completely disagree with this mode of achieving equality/fairness so that is why I feel Rawls does not belong in this group. In contrast, I do belong in this group because I adopt the notion that universal principles such as the freedoms and liberities people have need to be the same across gender, race, and classes. Furthermore, I like stage six even more because I only believe in negitive liberities not positive ones because it is impossible to distribute positive liberities equally. These are the reasons I feel that I am in level six of moral development.
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