There are three stages of moral development, there is Pre-Conventional which is the weakest stage because someone who is on in this stage moral standards are based only on their own opinions and experiences, Conventional which is the second level that is also weak but deals with moral standards based on groups of people, and last is Post-Conventional which has a strong justification because its moral standards is more universal and can be based off everyone. Most people are stuck in the Conventional stage because they are lured into their culture and society’s own way of thinking. Most people also bounce back and forwards between conventional and post-conventional and “less than 10 percent of American adults ever reach the post-conventional stages of autonomous moral reasoning. (91)” To become good one must be willing to strive up to post-conventional and in order to do that they must be willing to not think based on their own opinions or group’s opinion but think based of humanity and dignity; in other words, one must be for moral universal
There are three stages of moral development, there is Pre-Conventional which is the weakest stage because someone who is on in this stage moral standards are based only on their own opinions and experiences, Conventional which is the second level that is also weak but deals with moral standards based on groups of people, and last is Post-Conventional which has a strong justification because its moral standards is more universal and can be based off everyone. Most people are stuck in the Conventional stage because they are lured into their culture and society’s own way of thinking. Most people also bounce back and forwards between conventional and post-conventional and “less than 10 percent of American adults ever reach the post-conventional stages of autonomous moral reasoning. (91)” To become good one must be willing to strive up to post-conventional and in order to do that they must be willing to not think based on their own opinions or group’s opinion but think based of humanity and dignity; in other words, one must be for moral universal