Nancy, I don't believe that the story is so much as a false dilemma as
depiction of a situation. Regardless of his choices, in the story,
Heinz stole the drug. Now you have to determine if he was wrong to do
so and most importantly, why. As it has already been mentioned, there
are numerous
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Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:18 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject:Kohlberg's Moral Development
In teaching Kohlberg's stages of moral development, you always see the
example of Heinz who steals the overpriced drugs to save his wife. I am
getting
in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: RE: Kohlberg's Moral Development
One that I use, and students can relate to a bit better deals
with cheating on an exam. I don't have the text of the
dilemma but the gist is that the student's mother is very ill
and as a result the student was unable to study
I've also used a scenario from an older Plotnik IRM. It concerns a captain
in Korea who is faced with a dilemma. A bridge must be blown up, and in
order to get the job done, whoever does it will die. The captain must
decide whom to choose to blow up the bridge. His choices are: himself (but
Hello,
I would like to interject a tangential (though not entirely unrelated) point.
I find Kohlberg, Gilligan etc. to be some of the least useful knowledge we impart in an introductory or developmental psychology class.
I say this because of the evidence (from Kagan and studies of those
Title: Re: Kohlberg's Moral Development
Here are some others:
http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/p109g/kohlberg.dilemmas.html
Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire
At 05:17 PM 11/20/2002 -0800, you wrote:
In teaching Kohlberg's stages of moral development, you always see
