What is the difference between conventional and postconventional moral reasoning?
Conventional moral reasoning focuses on conformity to conventional standards of right and wrong. Post
conventional standards of right and wrong are based on abstract principles and values that involve all
people regardless of their background, or situation.
Conventional moral reasoning has only one stage that belongs to it. Post-conventional moral reasoning is
composed of two stages.
They are essentially the same.
Conventional standards of right and wrong are based on abstract principles and values that involve all
people regardless of their background, or situation. Post conventional moral reasoning focuses on
conformity to conventional standards of right and wrong.
