Writer Between Worlds

“Piaget’s value system considers rule by cooperation a more satisfactory equilibration in human relations than rule by authority. (…) Rigid traditionalists assume that the answer to the question ‘what is the good?’ can be – has been – answered permanently, and concretely, with the list of laws. (…) Adherents of tradition rely on the attribution of superhuman value to ancestral figures and, equally, to their current temporal and spiritual representatives. Those who embrace the morality of cooperation, by contrast, value the notion of ‘mutual respect’ – which means simultaneous appreciation of equality and mutual value among individuals within (and, much more radically, between) social groups.”

Peterson, J. (1999) – Maps of Meaning, p. 391