Concept
Moral development
Overview
emergence, change, and understanding of morality from infancy through adulthood
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Both peoples are interesting for our study, not only as illustrating different kinds of moral development, but also as contributing largely to the moral consciousness of western peoples to-day.
John Dewey, Ethics
The chapter “THE HEBREW MORAL DEVELOPMENT” is titled for Moral development; states what Moral development is.
The perfect or complete ideal is not a mere ideal; it is operative here and now. But it is present only implicitly, "potentially," or in an enfolded condition. What is termed development is the gradual making explicit and outward of what is thus wrapped up. Froebel and Hegel, the authors of the two philosophic schemes referred to, have different ideas of the path by which the progressive realization of manifestation…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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It has also seemed to me that in an age of transition in opinions, there may be somewhat both of interest and of benefit in noting the successive phases of any mind which was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of others. But a motive which weighs more with me than either of these, is a desire to make acknowledgment of the debts which my…
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
States what Moral development is; names Moral development.
Philosophers who discussed Moral development
Related ideas
- Moral universalism
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Dewey
- Conformity
- Psychoanalysis
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Moral skepticism
- Religion
- Sigmund Freud
- Carol Gilligan
- Empathy
- Aristotle
- Morality
- Social norm
- Ethical subjectivism
- Moral relativism
- B. F. Skinner
- Theory of mind
- Moral absolutism
- Humanism
- Confucius
- Attention
- Prejudice
Place in the tradition
Part of Morality.