Abstract

LIMA, Vanessa Aparecida Alves de. From Piaget to Gilligan: moral development retrospective in Psychology a way to the virtues’study. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2004, vol.24, n.3, pp.12-23. ISSN 1414-9893.

This article is an adaptation of a chapter from the USP Psychology Institute Master’s degree dissertation in School Psychology and Human Development. It involves the theoretical knowledge of Jean Piaget, Laurence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan about the moral development in the perspective of Psychology. The theories are built based on a conception of morality through cognitive factors and based on justice, according to the two first authors, up to the development of the care ethic, according to the third author’s theory. This concept leads us, inevitably, to consider that several elements, not only justice, take part in sense and moral action, among them, virtues as generosity.

Keywords : Moral development; Virtues; Generosity.

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