This project was originally a combination of an academic and creative work. It starts by investigating Kohlberg's work on moral reasoning, his use of moral dilemmas, and his claims of the possibility for using this format as a school curriculum. It progresses to Kohlberg's critics and advocates using his methods to investigate cross-cultural, gender, and age differences in moral reasoning. Finding little room for further study using Kohlberg's methods that would solve the problem between hypothetical and real moral reasoning, I turn to creating a novel that ultimately asks what I find to be...