OBJECTIVES  The principal aim of this study was to demonstrate the maturation of moral reasoning among pharmacy students as they progress through a 4-year degree programme at a school of pharmacy in the UK. METHODS  The moral reasoning of 332 students from across all 4 years of the Master of Pharmacy (M Pharm) degree, together with 13 faculty members, was assessed using Rest's Defining Issues T...

M. Christen et al. (eds.), Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality between Facts and Norms, Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 32, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01369-5_13, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 It is commonly assumed that humans do not begin life with moral character or virtue. Most documented societies through history considered infants to be unformed persons, not y...