History of Moral Understanding

Introduction

Good places to start

Hallpike, C.R. (2001). Evolution of Moral Understanding. Prometheus Research Group: www.prometheus.org.uk.

Books

Must-read books - original sources, commentaries and collections

Connell, R.W. (1971). The Child’s Construction of Politics. Melbourne University Press.

von Fürer-Haimendorf, C. (1967) Morals and Merit. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Ginsberg, M. (1956). On the Diversity of Morals. London: Heineman.

Hallpike, C.R. (2001). Evolution of Moral Understanding. Prometheus Research Group: www.prometheus.org.uk.

Hobhouse, L.T. (1929) Morals in Evolution (6th edn.). London: Chapman & Hall.

Jackson, M. (1982). Allegories of the Wilderness. Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narrative. Indiana University Press.

Kohlberg, L. (1984). The Psychology of Moral Development. New York: San Francisco: Harper & Row.

de Palma, D., & Foley, J. (eds.) 1975 Moral Development. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Piaget, J. (1932). The Moral Judgment of the Child. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Westermarck, E. (1906). The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas. London: Macmillan.

Papers

Key papers & discussions.

Edwards, C.P. (1975). Societal complexity and moral development: a Kenyan study. Ethos 3, 505-28.

Edwards, C.P. (1981) The comparative study of the development of moral judgment and reasoning. In Handbook of Cross-Cultural Human Development, eds. D.A.Wagner & H.W.Stevenson, 248-79. San Francisco: W.H.Freeman Press.

Ginsberg, M. (1944). Moral progress. Frazer Lecture. Glasgow University Press.

Hallpike, C.R. (1998). Moral development from the anthropological perspective. ZiF Mitteilungen 2/98, 4-18. View

Harkness, S., Edwards, C.P., & Super, C.M. (1981). Social roles and moral reasoning: a case study in a rural African community. Developmental Psychology 17, 595-603.

Kluckhohn, C. (1960). The moral order in the expanding society. In City Invincible: A symposium in urbanization and cultural development in the ancient Near East. eds. C.H. Kraeling & R.M. Adams, 391-404. University of Chicago Press.

Read, K.E. (1955). Morality and the concept of the person among the Gahuku-Gama. Oceania 25, 233-82.

Snarey, J.R. (1985). Cross-cultural universality of social-moral development: a critical review of Kohlbergian research. Psychological Bulletin 97, 202-32.

Turiel, E. (1978). The development of concepts of social structure. In The Development of Social Understanding. Eds. J.Glick & A.Clarke-Stewart, 25-107. New York: Gardner Press.

Turiel, E. (1980). The development of social conventions and moral concepts. In Moral Development and Socialization. Eds. M.Windmiller, N.Lambert, & E.Turiel, 69-106. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Journals

Journals that regularly carry valuable papers on this topic

Websites

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