John Wall > Quotes

“Ethical responsibility is not a capability installed in children that they otherwise lack. It does not appear at some magical age of reason. Rather, it is integral to human thinking throughout life.”
― John Wall, Ethics in Light of Childhood

“History has often denied full moral thinking capabilities in women, minorities, the poor, the colonized, and most other human groups. Today, however, those most likely to be thought incapable of moral thought are children. What if, however, childhood taught us to think about ethical thinking in a more expansively human way?”
― John Wall, Ethics in Light of Childhood

“Only in the face of each other's irreducible differences can we hope to create societies that transcend their own profoundest marginalization.”
― John Wall, Ethics in Light of Childhood

“To think morally involves reimagining one's life story in growing response to others in their very otherness from oneself.”
― John Wall, Ethics in Light of Childhood

“To be human, from birth to death, is to create new worlds of meaning from the worlds of meaning already created by history and others.”
― John Wall, Ethics in Light of Childhood