The Evolution of Western Moral Cognition Theory and Measurement Method

As a closely related subject of people's daily lives,moral research had a long history in the western history.Currently,Piaget was the first one to research the rules of children's moral cognition development by adopting the clinical methord and the duality stories;On this basis,Kohlberg proposed the theory of 3 levels and 6 stages,further confirmating the stability of the stage and sequence of moral cognition development,and carding the main clue of individual's moral cognition development.The neo-Kohlbergian theory mainly composed by moral schema,moral type and four-elements model,inherited and developed the Kohlberg's theory,and meantime it enriched the moral cognition theory itself.However,the post-Kohlbergian theory represented by the research of Erikson's prosocial psychology and Gilligan's female moral psychology,has a widely content.And this mainly reflected on the respect of reconstructing the moral concept,emphasizing the relationship between moral behavior and emotion,and the reaearch of moral personality and self.As the respect of moral management method,Kohlberg's Moral Judgement Interview and Neo-Kohlberg's DIT1 and DIT2 are analysised,which proposed the conclution that moral cognition research should adopt the pluralistic research methods.