In this paper, I argue that it is quite useful, both theoretically and empirically, to adopt a sociocultural approach to the study of moral development. This entails viewing ‘moral functioning’ as a form of mediated action, and moral development as the process by which persons gradually appropriate a variety of ‘moral mediational means’. Mediated action entails two central elements: an ‘agent’,...

Before the advent of computing, a standard science and mathematics curriculum emerged in secondary education, supported and expanded by first-year college courses, that serves as the technical basis for every student in science and engineering. For whatever reason, we have seen two unfortunate developments at the dawn of the new millennium. First, many computer science students have somehow bee...

If some action is intrinsically evil, it lacks all moral goodness. This act keeps physical goodness in the sense that real, but suffers from a real deficient disorder. It morally evil its essence because privation shapes objective character. Its disorder defines at core. Such an not only affected by evil; constituted evil. The formality and identity of itself. St. Thomas Aquinas argues these ac...

The writer explores Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, where Smith presents a rich and provocative account of morality. The writer offers an explication of Smith's moral psychology as a stage theory of moral development, with the intention of generating critical points on both mattes of detail and larger implications.