Moral Philosophies and cognitive Moral Development Wk-4

Virtue ethic is a moral philosophy that I have witnessed that has influenced the outcome of an ethical dilemma. According to Statman (1997), virtue ethic focuses on the essential rightness without regards for its consequences. One example of the way virtue ethic influenced the outcomes of the ethical dilemma in a present organization is introducing of free religious implication. Virtue ethic offers an internalizing way and integrating regulations that are intrinsically motivating to the whole organization. Virtue ethic does not focus on religious terminology so as to make an agreement of enthusiasm but instead it supplies an internal in a better way in order to obtain the good outcome in an ethical dilemma.

Currently, my organization and co-workers are in stage four that is the authority and social-order-maintaining orientation of Kohlberg’s moral development. Law and order morality is an example of my current organization and co-worker that illustrates the stage four of Kohlberg’s moral development. Stage four of Kohlberg’s moral development its emphasis on how my co-workers and organization can work for instance by obeying rules, respecting one another and by helping one another in the organization so as to maintain the outcomes of the organization. Law and order morality help my co-workers to perform their duties efficiently while maintaining social order in the organization. In the organization, everybody has to obey the law and order because if anyone fails, everyone is there in an obligation of upholding the rules. By the law and order morality has made my co-worker to be more motivated hence working hard to the goal set by the organization (Kohlberg, 1981).

 

 

References

Kohlberg, L. (1981). The philosophy of moral development. San Francisco: Harper and

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Statman, D. (1997) Virtue Ethics. Cambridge: Edinburgh University Press.