The Moral Life of Babies

Do we start out with a sense of right and wrong or not?  A long exploration in the NYT Magazine:

[T]he current work…on baby morality, might seem like a perverse and misguided next step. Why would anyone even entertain the thought of babies as moral beings? From Sigmund Freud to Jean Piaget to Lawrence Kohlberg, psychologists have long argued that we begin life as amoral animals…

 

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