Theologists And Their Theologies Flashcards
- Moral Development is a a continual process that occurs throughout an individual’s lifespan.
- Identified 3 levels of moral reasoning: pre-conventional, conventional, post conventional – each associated with increasingly complex stages of moral development
Lawrence Kohlberg
Utilitarianism – one’s moral and ethical responsibility to herself is that everything she does is for the greatest happiness – in kind and for everyone affected in her acts
Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill
Natural law theory – go beyond what she thinks she wants and to realize what her innermost nature inclines her to do which is the promotion of life, truth, and harmonious coexistence with others
St. Thomas Aquinas
Deontology – moral and ethical responsibility is to maintain dignity as a rational agent and become the self-legislator in the realm of morality; cannot be a follower/slave of her own selfish desires/external authority
Immanuel Kant
Virtue ethics – cultivate her own intellect and achieve eudaimonia (happiness) in life
Aristotle
Swiss psychologist originally conceived stages of moral development by Kohlberg
Jean Piaget
Psychoanalytic theory, with its emphasis on the unconscious mind, has fundamentally altered our perception of human behavior. He proposed that our actions are not always governed by our conscious thoughts but are often driven by unconscious desires and experiences
Sigmund Freud
Summa Theologica/Theologiae
St. Thomas Aquinas
About Legal Rights
John Stuart Mill
Wrote the Apology of Socrates
Plato
Situations Ethics
Joseph Fletcher
Theory of Justice
John Rawls
- Offers a sequence of 5 age-related stages through which a person must pass to reach moral maturity
- 4 types of moral development: external/social, personality/identity, internal psychophysiological, interactional
Jean Jacques Rousseau
