Kohlberg Moral Reasoning

Preconventional Morality

Stage 1

Obedience and Punishment presentation

Stage 2

Reward Orientation

Conventional Morality

Stage 3

"Good boy" Morality

Stage 4

Authority and Social-order-maintaining morality

Postconventional Morality

Stage 5

Morality of Contract, Indivdual rights, and democratically accepted law

Stage 6

Morality of Individual principles and conscience