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Ethics in Light of Childhood (Paperback)
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Ethics in Light of Childhood (Paperback)
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Children make up one third of all humanity. Yet too often children
are perceived as merely undeveloped adults, pre-moral and innocent,
remaining marginalized figures in our ethical landscape. Across
diverse societies and cultures, throughout history and today,
serious questions about being human and about moral behavior are
almost always understood from the perspective of adulthood.
Ethicist John Wall proposes a Copernican shift, contending that
considerations of childhood should not only have greater importance
on our ethical lives but that they should fundamentally transform
how morality is understood and practiced. The experiences of
children, Wall argues, should become new lenses for interpreting
what it means to exist, to live good lives, and to form just
communities--much in the same way that feminism legitimizes the
experiences of women for the benefit of all humankind. In Part 1
Wall examines traditional Western assumptions about children that
continue, for good and for ill, to ground ethical life today. Part
II constructs a more fully child-responsive moral theory, using the
strengths and weaknesses or our inherited historical perspectives.
Part III further refines this ethical vision by considering three
specific areas of social practice: human rights, family life, and
ethical thinking. In each case, the point of view of childhood is
shown to expand what it means to be human in social relations. This
is the meaning of ethics in light of childhood: not to dismiss or
minimize adult experiences of the moral life, but to widen them to
include considerations of children.
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