Kohlberg Vs Gilligan Essay

According to Pollock (2016), the work of Lawrence Kohlberg’s was motivated by the work of a Swiss psychologist. According to Crysdale (1994), the work of Carol Gilligan came about after Gilligan discovered that the work of Lawrence Kohlberg placed women on the lower level of the ethical ladder compared to men and all of Kohlberg’s subjects were all men. Although there are different views, however, there are some similarities between Kohlberg’s moral development and Gilligan’s “Ethics of Care.” Weber argued that one similarity is that both Kohlberg and Gilligan’s stated that people develop through series of stages that leads to “moral maturity” (1991).

According to Held (2014), Gilligan believe that there are three stages of moral development for progression. Gilligan argued that women’s sense of development played a greater role in women’s decision

Pollock argued that most men examine ethical decision with rules and fairness while, many women see the same ethical issue from needs and relationship perspective which became known as the “ethics of care” (2016). Another difference between this two perspective is the discussion of the “moral self.” According to Blum (1988), “the moral agent does not attempt to abstract from this particularized self, to achieve, as Kohlberg advocates, a totally impersonal standpoint defining the “moral point of view” (Blum, p.474, 1988). Gilligan saw morality as a specific agent in which one is caring for and about a particular friend or child whom the person has a particular relationship (Blum, 1988). In respect to two this two perspectives, one can say that Gilligan’s theory is more correct than Kohlberg’s theory because Kohlberg develop a model in which women were inferior to men and Kohlberg’s model was male