Post-Conventional

Stage 5
(Social contract and individual rights)

Stage 6
(Universal principles)

People at this stage believe that everyone has basic rights to life an liberty. At this stage they start asking, "What would make society right/correct?"

According to Kohlberg, stage 6 is the hardest stage to achieve and most people stay at stage 5. Stage 6 says that no matter what a person does or no matter how bad something they did was, they should still be treated fairly and just. Everyone deserves the same treatemesnt,