postconventional

Kohlberg found that we all move through three major stages of moral development, the last being what he calls the "postconventional stage," where one moves away from "an orientation toward authority, fixed rules, and the maintenance of social order" that characterize the prior stage, to a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of rules and the possibility of altering these by "appealing to logical comprehensiveness, universality and consistency."

Man of the Year: Patrick Fitzgerald 2006

We might notice that for each of these milestones or stages to be reached—whether genital, or concrete operational, or postconventional—the soul of the child must grow muscle, nerve cells, axons, dendrites, all using electrochemical neurotransmission.

The Wonder of Children Michael Gurian 2002

We might notice that for each of these milestones or stages to be reached—whether genital, or concrete operational, or postconventional—the soul of the child must grow muscle, nerve cells, axons, dendrites, all using electrochemical neurotransmission.

The Wonder of Children Michael Gurian 2002

Nonetheless, traditionally, in order to demonstrate your sincerity, you must complete a good number of preliminary practices, including a mastery of various states of meditative consciousness, summating in a stable post-postconventional adaptation, all of which is well and good.

Integral Options Cafe 2009

According to Kohlberg (1969), many adolescents fail to reach the later postconventional stages of moral development.

TPMCafe Paul Rosenberg 2009