THE INTERRELATEDNESS OF MORAL REASONING AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
THE INTERRELATEDNESS OF MORAL REASONING AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: If morality is the answer to “How we are supposed to live” at an individual (personal) level, then the political ideology is to be comprehended as a response to the same question but rather at a general social level. Starting from such a claim, it is assumed that the political ideology, as a form of social conscience is closely related to moral reasoning. For the purpose of perceiving the interrelatedness of moral reasoning and political ideology, hereby several researches are presented which tend to provide an answer to the issue of “existence of interrelatedness of moral reasoning and political ideology”. The summarized perceptions of the presented empirical researches, realized in diverse countries point out to the conclusion that even though the political ideology and moral reasoning are different variables, they are interrelated by means of the variable cognitive development. Such interrelatedness enables stimulation of a development of the humane forms of social organization through stimulation of a moral development.

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