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The psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg argued that people of all cultures go through the same stages of moral reasoning. Stage 1 is about punishment and obedience ("bad" is what brings punishment), stage 2 is about rewards ("good" is what brings you what you want), and stage 3 is about personal approval ("good" is what pleases mommy and daddy). What comes next?

    { 1 } - Confusion and skepticism.
    { 2 } - Social approval: "good" is what is socially approved.
    { 3 } - Utilitarianism: "good" social conventions are socially useful.
    { 4 } - The golden rule and related principles.

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The psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg argued that people of all cultures go through the same stages of moral reasoning. Stage 1 is about punishment and obedience ("bad" is what brings punishment), stage 2 is about rewards ("good" is what brings you what you want), and stage 3 is about personal approval ("good" is what pleases mommy and daddy). What comes next?

This may come still later. Indeed, an ethics course may promote confusion and skepticism about ethics.

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The psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg argued that people of all cultures go through the same stages of moral reasoning. Stage 1 is about punishment and obedience ("bad" is what brings punishment), stage 2 is about rewards ("good" is what brings you what you want), and stage 3 is about personal approval ("good" is what pleases mommy and daddy). What comes next?

    { 1 } - Confusion and skepticism.
    { 2 } - Social approval: "good" is what is socially approved.
    { 3 } - Utilitarianism: "good" social conventions are socially useful.
    { 4 } - The golden rule and related principles.

Many beginning college students are at this CR stage (where it's important to do what is approved by one's peer group). This may be why they take CR so seriously -- even though the view is implausible when we study it carefully.

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The psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg argued that people of all cultures go through the same stages of moral reasoning. Stage 1 is about punishment and obedience ("bad" is what brings punishment), stage 2 is about rewards ("good" is what brings you what you want), and stage 3 is about personal approval ("good" is what pleases mommy and daddy). What comes next?

    { 1 } - Confusion and skepticism.
    { 2 } - Social approval: "good" is what is socially approved.
    { 3 } - Utilitarianism: "good" social conventions are socially useful.
    { 4 } - The golden rule and related principles.

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The psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg argued that people of all cultures go through the same stages of moral reasoning. Stage 1 is about punishment and obedience ("bad" is what brings punishment), stage 2 is about rewards ("good" is what brings you what you want), and stage 3 is about personal approval ("good" is what pleases mommy and daddy). What comes next?

    { 1 } - Confusion and skepticism.
    { 2 } - Social approval: "good" is what is socially approved.
    { 3 } - Utilitarianism: "good" social conventions are socially useful.
    { 4 } - The golden rule and related principles.

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