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Postconventional

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Postconventional is an adjective meaning (ethics) Belonging to the last of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development, involving a social contract orientation and universal ethical principles.

Meaning

(ethics) Belonging to the last of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development, involving a social contract orientation and universal ethical principles.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conventionalist, right-thinking, postpolitical, transactional, poststructural, anticonventional.

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