What kind of mastery is it though?
Many children, with me included had none of that free-play omni-trusting kind of childhood, we were stuying as much of the "adult world" as we could handle. When I smile to kid, it's not because I feel like Peter Pan but rather because I see how harmless and fragile these creatures are.
People forget that naivety comes with a lack of basic morality, a distorted perception of reality and absolute hopelessness and victemhood when dealing with their own feelings.
I was trying to continue our discussion but there seems to be a technical problem as the newer comments berween us are not shown, and this directly relates to what i said about the venue.
Perhpas in later posts we will manage to do that.
Isn't it the other way around? The innocent people are with the great moral values?
I don't see how you can base that statement, unless you're confusing naive with innocent. We don't consider babies to be immoral simply because we never expect them to know the difference between good and bad.
One may interpret the story of the fruit of knowledge to be exactly that.
What I meant was that the more naive someone is - the more likely it is he'll be less moral as well.
You need knowledge about who the other is and what can hurt him - to be moral.
Can it even be considered morality if there isn't a knowledge of what is just?
Indeed.
In the first year of law school I wax introduced to the concept of the natural law. Rules that are beyond knowledge, common to all human beings.
We are born with the ability to know good from bad, children know this. They feel what is benefiting life and what is not. As adults our natural ability is shadowed by the same knowledge you are speaking of.
Alright, I'm an amateur in philosophy of law, what would an example of knowledge that people are born with that is more than what sensual feels good or bad?
It's more than a knowledge that is learned.
It's a wisdom about life. Every child has it but as adults we cover it with too much rationality.
I understand, can you give an example though?
The virtue of trust for example.
A child trust that everything in his life will be ok. All the needs will be provided at the right time.
Adults are full of worries, which eventually affect their morality.