Juízo moral : do realismo à subjectividade

Abstract

There are many studies carried through on the moral and many are the questions aroused around this subject. The studies presented on this subject are many, however, with passing of the years, doubts always exist on the actuality of the old research conducted by Piaget. This study had as main objective to perceive the moment when the children pass of the heteronomy for the autonomous moral, as well as from the objective responsibility for the subjective one, with respect to the lie. To accomplish the objectives we made an interview to the children of 1st Cycle of schooling with ages between the 6 and the 9 years old on what they understand as lie, followed by two groups of piagetiians histories and finally we applied the tests of the liquid and mass conservation. We tried to perceive the way these children define the lie and if their answers adjust to the age of heteronomy or autonomous moral defined by Piaget, as well as if the answers have some connection with the phases of conservation and reversibility. We choose children who are in the 1st Cycle of Basic Schooling and inquired students from the 1 st to 4 th year, three boys and three girls, of each year, about their opinion on what is lie. We also wanted to verify if there is a relation between the objectivity and the subjectivity and the acquisition of the conservations, to later inquire if the transition of the moral heteronomy for the autonomous moral was related with the tests of conservation. When analyzing the data that had been gotten next to the children of 1st Cycle, there is evidence that the children of 6 and 7 years are in the moral heteronymous, and that these students have not also still consolidated the conservation idea; at the 8 and 9 years age, the children are already in the autonomous moral, and also presenting the conservation idea.

Date of Award	2011
Original language	Portuguese
Supervisor	OSCAR CONCEIÇÃO DE SOUSA (Supervisor)