He or she approaches moral dilemmas with the perspective of a "member of society." During this stage of moral development we begin to take into account society's expectations and the requirements for adhering to certain social norms. In this phase the person is mainly concerned, as Hersh, Paolitto and Reimer say, with “striving not only to avoid punishment or censure [ship], but also to live up, in a positive way, to the accepted definitions of good conduct. member or occupant of the role." (2014, p.63) In the third level of moral reasoning, Kohlberg's post-conventional level, we approach moral dilemmas from the vantage point of seeing beyond the given laws are the social rules. This phase requires us to question authority to keep in mind what is best for society at large. According to Lawrence Kohlberg (1984), “The postconventional perspective, therefore, is prior to society; made moral commitments or supports the standards on which a good or just society is based”. (2014, p.178) At this level it deals with the whys of morality
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