Generally speaking, one can say that motor intelligence contains the germs of completed reason. But it gives promise of more than reason pure and simple. From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad, but master of his destiny. Now, if there is intelligence in the schemas of motor adaptation, there is also the element of play. 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.


Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism - The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

Jean Piaget Quotes

Generally speaking, one can say that motor intelligence contains the germs of completed reason. But it gives promise of more than reason pure and...

Generally speaking, one can say that motor intelligence contains the germs of completed reason. But it gives promise of more than reason pure and...

Generally speaking, one can say that motor intelligence contains the germs of completed reason. But it gives promise of more than reason pure and...

Generally speaking, one can say that motor intelligence contains the germs of completed reason. But it gives promise of more than reason pure and...