Kohlberg's Morality

Flowchart nodes

• Preconventional Morality

• Stage 1: Heteronomous Morality: Obedience and Punishment 

• Stage 2: Individualism, purpose and exchange: will go along for reward

• Conventional Morality: Conformity

• Stage 3: Interpersonal expectation and Conformity: Follows rules to be accepted by others

• Stage 4: social systems morality: authority and morality that benefits social order

• Post Conventional Morality: Self accepted

• Social Contract: morality of contract, individual rights, democratically accepted law

• Universal Ethical Principles: can conflict with society's morals, more internally focused and guilt when broken