Preconventional: When children are to the point where they go off of everything their parents say. They practically go off anything that an adult says. A child still hasn’t learned between right and wrong.
Conventional: The childs sense of morality is between societal and personal relationships. They except the rules of authority figures.
Postconventional: In this level, a person’s sense of morality is defined by terms of abstract principles. Most people believe that some laws are unjust and should just be taken off.
In Kolberg’s Theory, he defines morality as recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules. I think morality is just that. Being able to recognize good from bad, and understanding boundaries and the rules.
According to Kolberg’s Theory, Macbeth’s response to the decisions he’s made. I think, shows that he recognizes that what he has done was horribly wrong. Yet he is in too deep already, and the guilt is literally eating him alive. His response to becoming king, is quite strange, he seems to enjoy the power and use it wrongfully. His wife, Lady Macbeth is the one holding the secret together, while Macbeth is barely living with the guilt.
Referring to Kolberg’s chart, I would like to think that I am on the Social Contract level 3 stage. I would like to be on the last stage, but I still have so much to learn. I am not quite sure what it would take for me to get where i want in life.
SCENARIO 1 (ANSWERING QUESTIONS AS MACBETH WOULD)
1 & 1a. “Yes, tell the mother because then Judy will be in trouble and you will be praised and a better daughter.”
2 & 2a. “Not, that should not make a difference in the decision, she should be thinking of herself.”
3 & 3a. “Not really, it is about getting your sister in trouble and getting Louise in a higher favor of her mother.”
4 & 4a. “I think the fact that Judy earned the money herself is important, but Louise should be thinking of herself.”
5 & 5a. “Yes it is important, because if you make a promise you should always keep it no matter what”
6 & 6a. “A promise should be kept because it is the right and moral thing to do.”
7 & 7a. “Kind of, depending on the promise I suppose, because you made a moral agreement.”
8 & 8a. “A mother should be concerned about herself and what she wants the daughter to do, because that is what is best for the mother.”
9 & 9a. “The mother should be able to tell the daughter what she can and cannot do. Because the mother is in charge.
10 & 10a. “A daughter should be concerned about what she wants to do if she can achieve herself somehow.”
11 & 11a. “Louise should tell her mother to break the mother to break the mother and daughter trust that Judy and her mom have, so Louise is viewed as the favorite or more responsible.”
SCENARIO 2
1 & 1a. “Yes, Heinz should do whatever it takes to get the drug and save his wife. There is no reason the druggist should be charging ten times the amount it costs to make.”
2 & 2a. ” It is technically wrong for him to steal the drug, yet in his morals, he would do anything to save his wife.”
3 & 3a. “Heinz has an obligation to steal the drug, because if he couldn’t get it any other way, we will have to take matters into his own hands.”
4 & 4a. “I think it should make a difference in what Heinz does whether or not he loves his wife, if he doesn’t love her, why should he steal for her.”
5 & 5a. “No, Heinz does not know the stranger, so why should he put himself on the line for a stranger?”
6 & 6a. “Yes, if you love something, you should do anything to save it.”
7 & 7a. “Only if the person means something to you or is that important enough to try to save.”
8 & 8a. “Yes, it is against the law. I think it is legally wrong, not morally wrong.”
9 & 9a. “Possibly because a lot of morally wrong things are against the law. They should try to be morally right.”
10 & 10a. “The most responsible thing Heinz could do is to not steal the drug, but he should steal it anyways. If he steals, it may get him into trouble.”
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