As children consider these situations, they develop towards an autonomous stage of moral reasoning, characterized by the ability to consider rules critically, and selectively apply these rules based on a goal of mutual respect and cooperation.
Bunche's career as a scholar and civil rights activist began at Howard University in 1928. He reorganized and headed the political science department at the university and became one of the leaders of a small cadre of radical Black intellectuals whom W.E.B. Du Bois labeled the Young Turks.
An American essayist, poet, and popular philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803â82) began his career as a Unitarian minister in Boston, but achieved worldwide fame as a lecturer and the author of such essays as âSelf-Reliance,â âHistory,â âThe Over-Soul,â and âFate.â Drawing on English and German Romanticism, Neoplatonism, Kantianism, and Hinduism, ...