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    The Moral Agent: Moral Character Development and Its Stages Discuss

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    Kohlberg's theory of moral development proposes that an individual's understanding of morality follows a series of six stages. As cognitive abilities increase, so does one's capacity for higher stages of moral reasoning. The stages involve progressing from an external, rules-based view of morality to internalizing moral principles and reasoning about justice, rights, and human welfare. According to the theory, moral development is correlated with but not dependent on age or cognitive development. The document discusses Kohlberg's stages and applies them to analyze different viewpoints expressed in responses to a video of a student being tasered by police on a university campus.

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    Kohlberg's theory of moral development proposes that an individual's understanding of morality follows a series of six stages. As cognitive abilities increase, so does one's capacity for higher stages of moral reasoning. The stages involve progressing from an external, rules-based view of morality to internalizing moral principles and reasoning about justice, rights, and human welfare. According to the theory, moral development is correlated with but not dependent on age or cognitive development. The document discusses Kohlberg's stages and applies them to analyze different viewpoints expressed in responses to a video of a student being tasered by police on a university campus.

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    Kohlberg's theory of moral development proposes that an individual's understanding of morality follows a series of six stages. As cognitive abilities increase, so does one's capacity for higher stages of moral reasoning. The stages involve progressing from an external, rules-based view of morality to internalizing moral principles and reasoning about justice, rights, and human welfare. According to the theory, moral development is correlated with but not dependent on age or cognitive development. The document discusses Kohlberg's stages and applies them to analyze different viewpoints expressed in responses to a video of a student being tasered by police on a university campus.

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    MODULE 3 Packet GE 8 (Ethics)


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    The Moral Agent: Moral Character Development and Its Stages

    Activity 1: Discuss
    1. What was Kohlberg trying to accomplish with his theory?
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    2. How does moral development relate to cognitive development?
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    3. What is the difference between moral decisions and moral reasoning?
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    4. Discuss each of the stages. How does moral reasoning develop over time?
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    Activity 2: Stages of Kohlberg’s Stage of Moral Development


    Direction: Please take note the important description of every stage.

    Module 1 Packet for GE 8 (Ethics), College of Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Education, University of San Agustin Iloilo
    City, Philippines.
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    Activity 3: You and the Theory


    Each of the following comments are real reactions posted in response to the UCLA TASER INCIDENT
    video on youtube.com. Please read each one and decide which of Kohlberg’s levels of moral development can
    be ascribed to the comment. (Use the descriptions of stages within each level as a guide.) Please access the
    video through this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g7zlJx9u2E. Please explain your decision why
    you have chosen each answer.

    1. there is no right to treat people like this, for whatever they did... they tasered him after lying already
    tasered at the ground, maybe now you try to tell me that if you got tasered your able to stand up? Do
    something about the circumstances your government lead you in .... poor Americans...

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    Module 1 Packet for GE 8 (Ethics), College of Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Education, University of San Agustin Iloilo
    City, Philippines.
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    2. Ok I’m what you call an anarchist, but you still got to remember that the guy with the biggest stick is
    the one you better listen to. Unless you want to get your ass handed to you... Plus this fucking idiot was
    resisting arrest... That is illegal… If the cops are trying to arrest you and you resist, they are allowed to
    use force they feel necessary to take your stupid ass in…
    illegal.. If the cops are trying to arrest you and you resist they are allowed to
    use force they feel necassary to take your stupid
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    ass in...
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    3. This is exactly what should happen in a civilized country, because being civilized means having laws.
    Laws must be enforced by pain, otherwise why have them. This student got what he deserved... actually
    he got off easy. I would have drained the battery on him.

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    4. He had his ID; he just didn't show it because the police were profiling; he was the only student asked to
    show his ID in the entire library. The reason they have that policy is to keep bums from sleeping there, but
    this kid had books in front of him and he was sweating over midterms. How can you say someone
    deserved to be tased FIVE TIMES for that?

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    5. Funny how all the students watch like zombies at the situation. They don't even try to stand up to the
    police officers. They should just leave him alone and he would go. This is some bias.

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    6. They are cops, you are not. No I.D. you leave. No leave, deal with cops. No deal with cops, get tased.
    Obey the police (the ones with the guns and tasers) They say stand, you stand.

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    Module 1 Packet for GE 8 (Ethics), College of Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Education, University of San Agustin Iloilo
    City, Philippines.

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