Lawrence Kohlberg Quotes

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Lawrence Kohlberg

Profession : Educator

Birth : October 25, 1927

The normative theoretical claim that a higher stage is philosophically a better stage is one necessary part of a psychological explanation of sequential stage movement.

Lawrence Kohlberg

If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas, of the big nouns, and believed that one's life was determined by the ideas of the true, the good, and the beautiful which one held.

Lawrence Kohlberg

I have always tried to be clear that my states are stages of justice reasoning, not of emotions, aspirations, or action.

Lawrence Kohlberg

It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults.

Lawrence Kohlberg