I have always tried to be clear that my states are stages of justice reasoning, not of emotions, aspirations, or action. Lawrence Kohlberg More Quotes by Lawrence Kohlberg More Quotes From Lawrence Kohlberg It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults. Lawrence Kohlberg view some mature light The first meaning of 'cognitive' for us is that observations of others are made phenomenologically: i.e., by attempting to take the role of the other, to see things from his or her conscious viewpoint. Lawrence Kohlberg meaning others things see Insofar as each of us has been through the moral stages and has held the viewpoint of each stage, we should be able to put ourselves in the internal framework of a given stage. Lawrence Kohlberg us through moral stage The normative theoretical claim that a higher stage is philosophically a better stage is one necessary part of a psychological explanation of sequential stage movement. Lawrence Kohlberg better stage higher movement