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  • We can think quite honestly that all purportedly universal moral duties are simply individual ethics formed in very same way, but expounded as essential absolutes by infantile moralists incapable of the post-conventional/autonomous ethics others live by, the sort of ethics that actually generates maxims of a more sophisticated form than, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live," or, "Don't step on the grass."

    On Sophistry and Subjectivity Hal Duncan 2009

  • We can think quite honestly that all purportedly universal moral duties are simply individual ethics formed in very same way, but expounded as essential absolutes by infantile moralists incapable of the post-conventional/autonomous ethics others live by, the sort of ethics that actually generates maxims of a more sophisticated form than, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live," or, "Don't step on the grass."

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • The last stage is post-conventional in which the child's moral values should evolve into self-chosen actions that are based on individual's well-informed principles.

    Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: The Psychology of Morality and Raising Moral Children 2010

  • The third, and highest level of 'post-conventional' moral reasoning has two stages: first, an understanding of social mutuality and concern for the welfare of others, and secondly, adherence to individual conscience and respect for a universal principle of justice.

    Katherine Fennelly: What Does the Morality of Americans Have to Do With Immigration in America? Katherine Fennelly 2010

  • The last stage is post-conventional in which the child's moral values should evolve into self-chosen actions that are based on individual's well-informed principles.

    Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: The Psychology of Morality and Raising Moral Children 2010

  • I have to say that this is why I voted for Obama: the compassionate vision, the worldcentric perspective, the post-conventional morality.

    Barack Obama's Cairo Speech - June 04, 2009 William Harryman 2009

  • With a corresponding shift from “conventional/conformist to post-conventional/individualistic, the self is faced with identity versus role confusion” Wilber, 2000, p.

    Cognitive vs. Jungian: Comparing Therapies for the Rule/Role Developmental Stage William Harryman 2009

  • Ideally the therapist would be and I am going to toss around some Spiral Dynamics Integral terminology here - see above for color associations with stages and values/worldviews at least cognitively and morally second tier, or entry-level integral - even being middle to late post-conventional might be adequate.

    Value Systems in Psychotherapy William Harryman 2009

  • In this post-conventional, post-traditional arena, where spirituality is, more often than not, made to order for the individual, where it's every man or woman on the path for him - or herself, many of us find ourselves exploring the innermost reaches of our own consciousness in the midst of some truly dubious assumptions.

    Andrew Z. Cohen: Raising the Bar 2009

  • The problem is that we're living in a time and a cultural context in which, for the most educated among us, what higher spiritual development is actually supposed to mean and what post-conventional ethical behavior should look like remain vague and undefined.

    Andrew Z. Cohen: Raising the Bar 2009

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