Commentary

What is it about?

Piaget viewed morality as a rational concern with the rights and welfare of others and argued that morality is actively constructed through rational developmental processes. Current theoretical accounts of moral development, which enrich the traditional Piagetian account in diverse ways, are fully consistent with this rational constructivist perspective.

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Why is it important?

Many see morality as a matter of personal or cultural values but, at its core, morality is a rational outcome of rational developmental processes.