In an infiuential study of moral development, Carol Gilligan (1982) asked 11-year-old
children to consider what course of action would be most appropriate for a husband unable …

" The Emergence of Morality in Young Children is one of very few scholarly books
concerning the development of moral tendencies in the early years. In its pages, a diverse …

Issues of moral development and moral action have been explored by psychologists by both
empirical and nonempirical methods. Lawrence Kohlberg's moral stages have been of …

When Joan Didion was asked by The American Scholar to think" in some abstract way
about'morality,'" she found her mind veering instead" inflexibly toward the particular." 1 The …

In 1982, based on her own work with women, C. Gilligan proposed an alternate to the
classic (ie, Piaget and Kohlberg) theories of moral development. In her view, there are 2 …

Abstract Reviews the book, The Philosophy of Moral Development: Moral Stages and the
Idea of Justice, Vol. 1. Essays on Moral Development by Lawrence Kohlberg (1981). Three …

That men and women differ in their moral orientations is a commonly held stereotype. The
view that men are morally superior can be found in the writings of philosophers and …

Carol Gilligan's body of work in moral development psychology is of the first importance for
moral philosophy.'At the same time certain philosophical commitments within contemporary …

Owen Flanagan picks up on some of the recent theorizing of Carol Gilligan about sex
differences in moral judgment in order to raise some issues concerning my theory of stages …

The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every
known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict …