SOME CONTEMPORARY VIEWS ABOUT HUMAN MORALITY FROM PIAGET AND KOHLBERG

Abstract

With the emergence of a society where the ethics of duty seem to be doomed to oblivion, moral rearrangement emerges as a form of birth of new forms of rela-tionship, valorization of certain virtues and new ethical concerns. This article presents a discussion on the study of contemporary morality from Piagetian and Kohlbergian moral theories. For this discussion, we analyze the works of contemporary authors such as Bauman and Lipovetsky and the studies of Gilli-gan, Haidt and Greene on human morality. We emphasize the importance of comparing the different theoretical moral perspectives in favor of the recogni-tion of their respective contributions to moral psychology.