All the essays in this collection explicitly or implicitly discuss the ethics of leadership. Paul Johnson's "Plato's Republic as Leadership Text" is an essay on Plato and Nietzsche that considers two fundamental issues: the use of force and persuasion and the tension between the actions that lead to a position of leadership and the actions after…

This study attempts to demonstrate a correlation between college students' moral stage level and their recognition of formal-pragmatic presuppositions of communicative action. Jurgen Habermas has posited the existence of formal-pragmatic presuppositions that are assumed in every act of communicative behavior. Lawrence Kohlberg has posited…

Article discussed the moral import of Jean Renoir's films and their emergence from his conception of characters and his use of cinematic form. (Author/RK)

What should or should not be taught is considered with arguments for or against this or that form of justification arising primarily from five distinguishable but related issues. (Author/RK)

Author discusses Kohlberg's developments and feels they can help in the development of a mature moral consciousness. (GB)

American independent schools could make themselves known and valued as ethics-teaching oases in the desert of our contemporary amorality (Author)

Discussed the tremendous power that moral conceptions have over people, and especially the quest for power sought by students within the school system. (RK)

In this paper the author attempted to give what can be called the traditional definition of rationalism, and to show that rationalism as so described can no longer be seriously maintained. (Author/RK)

Study investigated whether a training program could foster the maturation of moral judgments in prekindergarten children, and the differential effects of two training methods: discussion and verbal discrimination. (Authors/CB)

Level of moral maturity was assessed in a group of children three to six years old, using stories or films to elicit judgments about relative goodness or badness. At all age levels, training had a significant effect in changing the moral orientation of the children. (Author/KM)

Discusses some of the bioethical and legal questions related to in vitro fertilization of human eggs as a means of alleviating the suffering of infertile couples. (JR)

Unlike Piaget's clinical procedure, the experiment's methodology allowed substantiation of the ability of children to simultaneously weigh damage and intent information when making a moral judgment. Other advantages of this quantitative methodology are also presented. (Authors)

Author disputes the thesis of Vandenberg's article Non-Violent Power in Education,'' Educational Theory, Vol. 19 No. 1, Winter 1969. (CB)

Seventh-grade boys were assessed for moral judgment with the Kohlberg interview technique; role taking, stage misture, intelligence, socioeconomic status, and social desirability were also assessed. Half were assigned to moral reasoning one stage above initial stage. Subjects at the preconventional level shifted upward more than subjects at the…