Kohlberg and Concern for Nonhumans
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awrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development has been enormously influential in psychology. As Dr. Julie Dunlap states, his work has been concerned exclusively with the development of our moral attitudes toward other humans. Her research is a welcome attempt to use Kohlberg's theory to probe for the development of moral concern about nonhuman animals and nature in general. We should be aware, however, as Dr. Dunlap is, that some serious doubts about Kohlberg's theory have been raised by psychologists and philosophers. Kohlberg holds that there is a fixed, invariant sequence of stages through which humans progress as their moral thinking
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