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Article: Limiting the domain of early moral judgment by challenging its critique of Piaget
- Article from:
- Merrill - Palmer Quarterly
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Wayne State University Press Jul 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The purpose of this essay is to limit two aspects of domain theory's account of early moral judgment via its critique of Piaget's theory. First, many domain findings are not contradictions of Piaget's work because they are predicted by objective responsibility. This leads to the claim that resear
ch has not established that children qualitatively distinguish between moral and conventional events. Second, because domain researchers' claim that Piaget underestimated early morality is based on research that typically neglects children's difficulty in evaluating intentionality, their related claim that young children judge actions is not supported.
Among the most important questions that ...