Jean Piaget had some very interesting ideas. He wasn't a developmental psychologist, he didn't even regard himself as a psychologist. He wanted to reconcile science and religion. That's what he was doing throughout his entire life, because it drove him crazy when he was an adolescent. And he didn't think that he would be able to survive unless he could bring those two things together.

He also got very interested in the spontaneous emergence of morality in the play of children. The idea is that when kids come together and unify themselves towards a particular goal (in play) that a morality emerges. And further, each game that children play holds it's own morality.  So, there's a morality in game one, there's a morality in game two, there's a morality in game three. What's common across all those moralities is a meta-morality.

The meta-morality emerges from the particular moralities that are embedded in particular cooperative situations.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast 
Jean Piaget (Constructivism)
In the most recent episode of the Jordan B. Peterson podcast, Professor Peterson explores the works and ideas presented by Jean Piaget, renowned developmental psychologist, helped us understand how the child built its own personality during exploration, and how that personality was further shaped by the games people play.
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The second lecture of a six-part series.
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