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All right, here we are asked, what are colberg and piaget's theories on moral development, and what are the differences and similarities between the two theories? so i want to start off by saying, i absolutely love piaget.
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He is my favorite philosopher or my favorite psychoanalyst and developmental psychologist.
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He considered himself a genetic epistemologist more than anything.
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He wanted to really discover the origins of morality.
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And he did that by studying children.
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And that's mainly what he is remembered for, is the developmental stages that are found in children.
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But i want to first talk about piaget, meaning where he has a book where he wrote the morality of the child, where he details all of what i'm about to say.
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He, of course, goes into much more detail.
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But that essentially morality develops in children.
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Morality develops in children.
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And it develops through multiple ways.
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He talks about develops in children that it develops in multiple ways but that it develops through play right through playing games with others they learn how to so he talks about you know when you're two you can't play with others because it's all you you're a one -eyed monster meaning that whatever i want is whatever i'm going to get and everybody else can just you know i don't care about them uh and then by the time you're you can start kind of playing next to somebody else, but you're not really playing the same game.
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And then by the time you're four, you can start actually playing the same game with another person.
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Now, once you start doing that, then you have to start giving considerations so that you can play over and over with each other.
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And then by the time you're five, you can start to play games that have rules.
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And you can't quite understand the rules of the game, meaning you can play the game if you're in a group of kids who are playing the same game.
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But if you, if an adult takes that child out and tells him, asks him to explain the rules, the child won't be able to really articulate what the rules of the game are.
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And then as you get older, maybe six or seven or eight, you're able to articulate the rules of the game and even start to create new games based on the rules of the game that you're playing.
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And so he uses that as a module through which we can determine how morality as a culture is created, meaning that we kind of are feeling our way through playing quote -unquote games with other people.
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First, we just kind of obey the rules of the game because we want to get along.
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And that's the first stage, which is that, so here's what i'll say about piaget.
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This is our first major point, which is that the first stage happens because you're just, you're learning the rules because you're playing by the rules because you want to keep playing the game.
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And that's given generally by authority figures.
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And that would be, you know, the older kids on the playground who know the rules of the game and are kind of dictating what game are we playing.
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Okay, let's play, let's play freeze tag.
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The rules are, if you get tagged, you have to be frozen until somebody else comes and tags you.
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You know, like that's how, you know, somebody sets the rules.
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So that first stage is when you're just trying to play the game and get along.
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And the rules, you're not able to make the rules yet.
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You're just trying to play by the rules that the authority figures are giving you.
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So the first stage in, i mean the first major stage is your giving.
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Your moral your moral compass from authority figures.
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All right, from authority figures.
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And that's where the principal idea here is just obedience.
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Mimicry.
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You're mimicking the behavior of other people.
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And the behavior of the authority figures is kind of the foundation for that framing of morality...