Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

An adolescent who is suffering an identity crisis because of confusion or indecision about sex role and/or occupational choice.  

Those values that relate to a person’s behavior or conduct with and treatment of other people.  

An innovative method of treating the mentally ill in “hospitals” during the late eighteenth century. Introduced by Philippe Pinel in 1792 and characterized by removal of the chains and shackles from the mentally ill patients at the Bicetre hospital.  

Concrete decisions pertaining to right and wrong. Also morals, morality. A belief system in which we judge actions and people to be “right” or “wrong”, good or bad. Ethics is the study of morals, which see for further discussion relating moral issues to health care.  

The concept of rules as changeable human conventions based on reciprocal agreement among those who use them.  

Morality of constraint.    

A person who fails to develop adequate moral values.  

Those persons who possess a conservative religiously oriented view of life.  

The process through which a person decides that some action is good or bad.  

Moral thinking typical of children about 12 years and older characterized by flexible rules, mutual agreements, and allowance for intentions morality of constraint.