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Quotes from The Moral Judgment of the Child — Jean Piaget

1896–1980 Switzerland

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Every observer has noted that the younger the child, the less sense he has of his own ego.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

Between the various types of rules which we shall give there will therefore be at once continuity of function and difference of structure.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

In real life the child is in the presence, not of isolated acts, but of personalities that attract or repel him as a global whole.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

From the point of view of the practice or application of rules four successive stages can be distinguished.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

One must have felt a real desire to exchange thoughts with others in order to discover all that a lie can involve.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

A strong personality can maintain itself without the help of this particular weapon.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

The spirit of the command having failed to be assimilated, the letter alone remains.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

A second prefatory question faces us: that of society and the individual.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

This is the true morality of intention and of subjective responsibility.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

The motor rule is therefore the result of a feeling of repetition which arises out of the ritualization of schemas of motor adaptation.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

Egocentrism in so far as it means confusion of the ego and the external world, and egocentrism in so far as it means lack of cooperation, constitute one and the same phenomenon.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

But not every habit will give rise to the knowledge of a rule. The habit must first be frustrated, and the ensuing conflict must lead to an active search for the habitual.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

There are therefore three types of behavior: motor behavior, egocentric behavior (with external constraint), and cooperation.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

This, of course, does not prevent some rules from containing more than others an element of rationality, thus corresponding to the deepest fundamental constants of human nature.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Piaget (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.