Moral Development

Irenaean Theodicy - Reception - Michael Tooley
... by those with terminal illnesses cannot be for moral development, and that such illnesses do not fall more often upon those seemingly immoral or in need of ... instances of suffering serve any useful purpose, as they cannot lead to moral development ... Finally, he questioned whether the current universe is the best possible world for the moral development of humans ...

Lawrence Kohlberg's Stages Of Moral Development
... Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development constitute an adaptation of a psychological theory originally conceived of by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget ... The theory holds that moral reasoning, the basis for ethical behavior, has six identifiable developmental stages, each more adequate at responding to moral dilemmas than its predecessor ... Kohlberg followed the development of moral judgment far beyond the ages studied earlier by Piaget, who also claimed that logic and morality develop through constructive stages ...

Moralist - Psychology
... See also Kohlberg's stages of moral development and Jean Piaget#Education and development of morality In modern moral psychology, morality is considered to change through ... A number of psychologists have produced theories on the development of morals, usually going through stages of different morals ... and Elliot Turiel have cognitive-developmental approaches to moral development to these theorists morality forms in a series of constructive stages or domains ...

Irenaean Theodicy - Development - John Hick
... theodicy, based on free will, and the Irenaean theodicy, based on human development ... as an attempt to respond to the problem of evil in light of scientific development, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, and as an alternative to the traditionally accepted Augustinian ... Hick argued that a world without pain or suffering would prevent moral development such a world would have no fixed structure, or have a structure subject to divine intervention ...