Moral reasoning is defined by Henry Richardson as individual or collective real-world perceptive concerning what, morally, one ought to do pertaining to what is correct and not correct (2013, pp.1). Moral aspects of doing what is proper depend upon moral, conventional, and personal rules from a young age (Matsumoto &Juang, 2013). Morals are based on values, where conventional rules are based on accepted as norms by a group of individuals, and personal rules are based on the personal preferences of an individual (Matsumoto &Juang, 2013). Moral reasoning is based on rule of society and cultural values.
Koelberg’s Theory
Koelberg indicated in his theory of moral reasoning and development occurs in three stages or levels in the evolution of making moral judgments relate cognitive development (Feldman, 2010). The stage of moral development by Koelberg are preconventional , conventional , and postconventional aspects of morality (Matsumoto &Juang, 2013). Preconventional morality concentrates …show more content…
112). Based on various working including Jensen’s there are three ethics of morality such as autonomy, community, and divinity which underlines individual rights and justice, accentuates social associations and community, and importance of religious principles and spirituality in moral reasoning (Matsumoto &Juang, 2013). The ethics methodology is an effort to go beyond Western philosophies of principles to incorporate others, in the same way, which contain and constrain people’s views, they are the spaces people develop inside, creating and resisting artistically in communicating on morality (Matsumoto &Juang,