Piaget and Creation
Jean Piaget was a very well-rounded academic at an early age and was a prominent writer. He’s contributed work in the areas of children’s cognitive perception of causality, time, morality, and space. His contributions still influence many areas of study that involve human development. Though he’s known for much more, the textbook mainly covers Piaget’s 4 stages of human ontogeny.
- Sensorimotor (birth-2): infant becomes aware of the relationship of physical sensations and actions.
- Preoperational (2-7): child begins to identify how the world is organized, how it functions, and how humans interact with one another.
- Concrete operations (11 or 12): mental processes that allow individuals to solve problems begins to develop for physical objects
- Formal operations (11 or 12): the ability to solve abstract problems develop
These are stages of early human development, and for that reason, I believe Piaget fits well into Creation. His research is about understanding how individuals develop in their environments. I believe Piaget was one of the first to create a reliable map that we use to predict human development. This was considerably useful in therapeutic context for psychology, language, and sociology. Also in my opinion, Piaget’s approach is much more realistic than psychoanalytic psychology.
Denysha Taylor on Thales and Creation
7:10 am, 09.10.13
Wonderful depiction of Thales Hillary! I also believe that Thales was one to think outside the box. I feel all of the philosophers have that in common because they bring in new kinds of thought and perspective to the world. Thales fits very well with creation. The thought could even be expanded if you applied it to human beings, or rather “human nature”. It’s possible that not everything is a result of God acting upon us, but some people behave according to their own human nature.