Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
Jean Piagetwas a Swiss clinical psychologist known for his pioneering work in child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology"...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 August 1896
CityNeuchatel, Switzerland
CountrySwitzerland
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The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one realized most how keenly how immoral it can be to believe too much in morality, and how much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.
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It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.
becoming remains
The most developed science remains a continual becoming
mother attitude reality
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
children stress elements
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.
social stage accommodations
During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.
mean reality knowing
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
children sacrifice self
The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.
art philosophy history
Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.
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If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream.
doe mutual-respect ifs
If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.
views psychology transition
Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
philosophy teaching office
It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers of speculation ... It's so much easier than digging out the facts. You sit in your office and build a system. But with my training in biology, I felt this kind of undertaking precarious.
punishment impossible autonomy
Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.