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MORAL REALISM [1 record]

Record 1 1977-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Ethics and Morals
DEF

an attitude found in small children (occasionally in others) that rightness and wrongness inhere in certain conducts and are "objectively" perceptible and self-evident.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Éthique et Morale
CONT

Le "réalisme moral" (Piaget) caractérise le jugement de l'enfant pour qui l'obligation morale est déterminée par la consigne en elle-même, indépendamment de l'intention qui sous-tend celle-ci.

Spanish

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