Samvetsetik och social ansvarsetik; två moraltyper?

Abstract

SUMMARYRobert Hogan's research on a variable of moral judgement, the “ethics of conscience—ethics of social respontibility”—is critically examined. Hogan's main thesis is that the endpoints of this dimension are developmentally and morally equivalent. It is shown that in reality, the variable in question is based on a distinction between a progressive autonomous morality and a conservative heteronomous one. Throughout, Hogan does his best to disguise this fact, chiefly by trying to link autonomy to individual morality and heteronomy to social morality, and arguing for the desirability of both views. However, autonomous morality may quite well be applied socially as well as individually.—Hogan found that young social and political activists tended to adopt the ethics of conscience—and certain results in particular make the assumption of equivalence a highly questionable one: the ethics of social responsibility—view—point shows significant and positive correlations with authoritarianism and dogmatism, and i...