Kohlberg

 __ Lawrence Kohlberg​ __

Lawrence Kohlberg was born in Bronxville, New York in the year 1927 to a rich family. As a young man, he joined the United States Merchant Marines some time after World War II. When Kohlberg was older, he helped Jews out of Europe into Palestine. He was caught and put in jail. After this ordeal, his main line of work became a professor of Educational and Social physcology.

Kohlberg came up with his own theories based on the work of Jean Piaget, another professor with interests in child behavior. Kohlberg got young men, ages ten to sixteen, to answer difficult questions pertaining to morals and values. He would ask them to answer questions like if you should give your wife an experimental cure to cancer and go to jail or steal it and save her. Kohlberg believed there was a three stage system of moral developement. Stage one, or pre- conventional, is to avoid breaking the rules and expecting a reward. Stage two, or conventional, is equal consiquences a, "You hit me, I hit you" system in which you are sound with society. Finally, stage three, or post- conventional, is a sense of agreement and things are going good. Socially, you are sound.

Unfortunetly, Kohlberg had suffered from a tropical disease for 20 years before he went missing January 17, 1987 and was found five days later in a river. 

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