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The Use of Developmental Psychology in Ethics: Beyond Kohlberg and Seligman?
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Author(s): Craig Steven Titus (Institute for the Psychological Sciences, USA)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 21
Source title:
Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies Development
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Fernand Doridot (Centre for Ethics, Technics and Society (CETS), ICAM of Lille, FRANCE), Penny Duquenoy (Middlesex University, UK), Philippe Goujon (Laboratory for Ethical Governance of Information Technology ,Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium), Aygen Kurt (Middlesex University and LSE, UK), Sylvain Lavelle (Institut Catholique des Arts et Métiers of Lille, France), Norberto Patrignani (Universita' Cattolica di Milano, Italy), Stephen Rainey (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium)and Alessia Santuccio (Universita' Cattolica di Milano, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3670-5.ch018
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Abstract
This chapter argues that a developmental psychology based in a wider notion of reason and ultimate flourishing can employ both duty and virtue in the service of the common good. It identifies several important differences between cognitive structuralism and virtue-based approaches concerning the pre-empirical priority paid to either duty or virtue in moral development. It brings to light several challenges concerning the use of developmental psychology in ethics: (1) a weakness in schools of cognitive structuralism, such as that of Lawrence Kohlberg, inasmuch as they do not move beyond the theory of stages and structures that focus only on the cognitive judgment of justice and on duty; (2) a weakness in developmental virtue approaches, such as that of Martin Seligman, inasmuch as they do not employ moral content in the operative notions of virtues and values. This article concludes that a heartier notion of developmental psychology and normative ethics will need to recognize the interrelated nature of ethical acts (moral agency), ethical agents (moral character), and ethical norms (duties and law). Such an integrated approach must also attend to the input that diverse philosophical and religious presuppositions make toward understanding the place of developmental psychology in the practice of ethics.
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