Level 3 is Post-Conventional Moral Reasoning:  Moral analysis goes further than looking at community values and focuses on human rights and their lasting consequences.

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Level 2 is Conventional Moral Reasoning: Moral interpretation looks at the  regulations and conventions of society, together with folkways,  traditions,  values, and laws, and considers ethics based on these.

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Level 1 is Preconventional Moral Reasoning: Ethical interpretation does not look into the future to societal implications or penalties, and focuses on what will happen to the person making the judgment.

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Lawrence Kohlberg proposed that people develop their sense of morality by progressing through a set of developmental stages. The theory has since been named Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development.

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