英文摘要
The major purpose of this study is to distinguish the distinctive
features between Confucian ethics of ordinary people and Kohlberg's
post-conventional morality. The study compared American and Taiwanese college
students' responses to items about practicing positive duties to others and
judging the immorality of violating the negative duties done by others. The
results indicated that both groups were obligated in a descending order to
assume positive duties to their parents, spouse, children, and relatives. They
also believed that the equity rule should be applied to friends, colleagues,
strangers, and competitors. On these two dimensions, the two cultural groups
were different in extent only. However, when judging the wrongness of not
assuming positive duties to family members done by other, Taiwanese students
tended to take the relationships between the actor and the judge into account.
In case of evaluating others' misbehaviors of violating negative duties,
Taiwanese students were much influenced by his interpersonal relationships with
the actor, while American students were not.