Question

A person is arrested for stealing company documents and says, "yes, i did steal the documents, and i am willing to go to jail for it. these documents prove that the company was engaging in a cover-up of the unsafe properties of its chemical. i think the public has a right to know about it". lawrence kohlberg would classify this person is using _____ reasoning. postconventional preconventional conventional unconventional

Answer 1

This is an example of postconventional reasoning. This person is using postconventional reasoning because they recognize that something was wrong according to the rules, and something was wrong morally. The situations in which there were wrongs was the person stealing the documents from the company, but the fact that the company was knowingly covering up unsafe properties.