Kohlberg, who taught at the University of Chicago, Yale and Harvard, is best known for his theory of moral development, which enlarged upon the work of Jean Piaget and others. He died in 1987 at ...

The purpose of this essay is to reconceptualize Kohlberg's theory and research on moral stages in the light of recent criticisms. In the early 1970s, Kohlberg extended his Piaget-based moral stages to ...