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Luminous Moral Development™
How moral reasoning changes shape as a person develops — and why that is different from becoming a better person.
32 chapters · 247,730 words · Narrated · Still being written
Kohlberg found that the reasons people give for a moral judgement follow a developmental sequence even when the judgements themselves agree. Carol Gilligan found that his sequence had been built on boys and missed an entire ethic of care. Both findings survive, and this volume holds them together.
Thirty-two chapters: the stages, the critiques, the evidence as it actually stands, and the practical part — that persuasion aimed at the wrong moral structure fails no matter how sound the argument is. Narrated, and still being written; what stands is open to read.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.