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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel K Lapsley |
| ISBN: | 0813330327 9780813330327 0813330335 9780813330334 |
| OCLC Number: | 34412272 |
| Description: | xiv, 289 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Piaget's theory: stage and structure -- Piaget's Moral judgment of the child -- Kohlberg's theory: an overview -- Kohlberg's stage theory -- Moral components and the defining issues test: enlarging and constricting the moral domain -- Domains of social knowledge -- Moral orientations: gender, benevolence, caring -- Positive justice and prosocial reasoning -- Prosocial behavior -- Moral traits and the moral personality? -- The moral personality: socioanalytic theory -- The moral self -- Postscript: the post-Kohlbergian era in moral psychology. |
| Series Title: | Developmental psychology series (Boulder, Colo.) |
| Responsibility: | Daniel K. Lapsley. |
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Abstract:
Moral functioning is a defining feature of human personhood and human social life. Moral Psychology provides an integrative and evaluative overview of the theoretical and empirical traditions that have attempted to make sense of moral cognition, prosocial behavior, and the development of virtuous character. This is the first book to integrate a comprehensive review of the psychological literatures with allied traditions in ethics. Moral rationality and decision-making; the development of the sense of fairness and justice, and of prosocial dispositions; as well as the notion of moral self and moral identity and their relation to issues of character and virtue are fully discussed in the rich contexts provided by psychological and philosophical paradigms. Lapsley emphasizes parenting and educational strategies for influencing moral behavior, reasoning, and character development, and charts a line of research for the "post-Kohlbergian era" in moral psychology. This book will be an invaluable text for advanced courses in moral psychology, as taught in departments of psychology, education, and philosophy. It will also prove to be a standard reference work for researchers and ethicists alike.
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