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On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. (Jean Piaget)
The intentionality peculiar to motor activity is not a search for truth but the pursuit of a result, whether objective or subjective; and to succeed is not to discover a truth. View quote
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Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate. View quote
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Every thought that enters the head of a child of 2-3 does so from the first in the form of a belief and not in the form of a hypothesis to be verified. View quote
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There are no really solipsistic philosophers, and those who think they are deceive themselves. The true solipsist feels at one with the universe, and so very identical to it that he does not even feel the need for two terms. View quote
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Between the various types of rules which we shall give there will therefore be at once continuity of function and difference of structure. View quote
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In order to remove all traces of moral realism, one must place oneself on the child's own level, and give him a feeling of equality by laying stress on one's own obligations and one's own deficiencies. In this way the child will find himself in the presence, not of a system of commands requiring ritualistic and external obedience, but of a system of social relations such that everyone does his best to obey the same obligations, and does so out of mutual respect. View quote
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It is when the child is accustomed to act from the point of view of those around him, when he tries to please rather than to obey, that he will judge in terms of intentions. View quote
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A strong personality can maintain itself without the help of this particular weapon. View quote
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In other words the true solipsist has no idea of self. There is no self: there is the world. View quote
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The motor rule is therefore the result of a feeling of repetition which arises out of the ritualization of schemas of motor adaptation. (Jean Piaget)
A second prefatory question faces us: that of society and the individual. View quote
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The motor rule. In its beginnings the motor rule merges into habit. View quote
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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. View quote
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Babies are, then, obviously narcissistic, but not in the way adults are, not even Spinoza's God, and I am a little afraid that Freud sometimes forgets that the narcissistic baby has no sense of self. View quote
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From the point of view of the practice or application of rules four successive stages can be distinguished. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every observer has noted that the younger the child, the less sense he has of his own ego. View quote
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To perceive is to construct intellectually, and if the child draws things as he conceives them, it is certainly because he cannot perceive them without conceiving them. View quote
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There are in existence two distinct ideas of justice. We say that an award is unjust when it penalizes the innocent, rewards the guilty, or when, in general, it fails to be meted out in exact proportion to the merit or guilt in question. View quote
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This assimilation of every fresh object to already existing motor schemas may be conceived of as the starting point of ritual acts and symbols, at any rate from the moment that assimilation becomes stronger than actual accommodation itself. (Jean Piaget)
If children fail to understand one another, it is because they think they understand one another. View quote
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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. View quote
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The only way of avoiding these individual refractions would lie in true cooperation, such that both child and senior would each make allowance for his own individuality and for the realities that were held in common. View quote
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This is the true morality of intention and of subjective responsibility. View quote
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