Postconventional Morality. At the postconventional level, making moral judgments focuses on the principle of nonviolence. It's important to remember that your own needs matter just as much as the ...

Kohlberg's highest stages of moral development are called postconventional and involve a recognition of the social contract and of universal ethical principles.

Postconventional Morality: This phase of moral development and thinking seldom occurs before college, but parents of children of any age can be supportive of this process.

Moral reasoning is more complicated than you might think. The researcher/theorist Lawrence Kohlberg once proposed three basic types of moral reasoning: preconventional, conventional and ...