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Paral Theory: Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Development Theory

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Introduction Kohlberg’s moral development theory has been discussed for a very long time. He used the story-telling technique to illustrate stories involving moral dilemmas. His best known story illustrating moral dilemmas is call the Heinz Dilemma. According to this story Lawrence Kohlberg came up with 3 levels of moral development, with 2 stages in each level. And so the story goes as follow. 
 “Heinz’s wife was dying from a particular type of cancer. Doctors said a new drug might save her. The drug had been discovered by a local chemist and the Heinz tried desperately to buy some, but the chemist was charging ten times the money it cost to make the drug and this was much more than the Heinz could afford. Heinz could only raise half the money, …show more content…

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