Moral reasoning and political beliefs of the University of Zululand students

Moral maturity is understood as the progressive development of more morally adequate forms of moral judgment. Thus one would expect higher levels of moral reasoning from the highly educated. In this study, this assumption is proved to the contrary. When moral judgments of undergraduates and post graduate students of the University of Zululand were compared in relation to their socio-political beliefs, results proved that education does not play a significant role when it comes to such issues. The level of education did not correlate with all political beliefs as one would expect. The results of this study showed that a relatively high level of moral reasoning is related to more progressive political ideas, not to a high level of education. Theories of moral reasoning and those in contrary have supported research findings.

Author dc:creator

• Gwala, Siphelele I.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Ngcobo, H.S.B.

• Moral maturity
• progressive development

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• https://devspace.unizulu.ac.za/bitstreams/99f810ab-0d2b-4ac4-94fb-364340d4eb38/download