“If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.”

—  Jean Piaget

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

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Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & acad… 1896–1980

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