Ethics in Light of Childhood

"Could viewing moral issues from the perspective of children create a revolution in philosophical and religious ethics? This beautifully written book brilliantly argues that it will. Get ready for a new paradigm in ethics that author John Wall calls æchildism.' It may be as exciting for ethics as feminism was thirty years ago and be central to moral debates for decades to come."-Don Browning, professor emeritus, Department of Religious Ethics, University of Chicago, and author of Reviving Religious Humanism

"This is not just a book about children and ethics. This book revolutionizes the very way ethics is done. With probing insight and close attention to social practice, John Wall rescues children from their usual place as the 'most systematically excluded group on the planet. and moves them to the center of moral deliberation. This book should be required reading for ethicists and all those who care about sustaining the good life and a just society."-Bonnie Miller McLemore, E. Rhodes and Leona R. Carpenter Professor of Pastoral Theology, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion

"This wonderful book takes the study of childhood and of ethics to a new and transformative level. Animating ethical theory with stories drawn from real children's lives, Wall calls for a fundamental restructuring of ethical thinking. It is essential reading liar anyone who thinks deeply about children.-Barbara Woodhouse, L.Q.C. Lamar Chain in Law and codirector, Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic, Emory University

John Wall is an associate professor of religion, with a joint appointment in childhood studies, at Rutgers University. He is the author of Moral Creativity, and coeditor of Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought and Marriage, Health and the Professions, as well as the forthcoming Children and Armed Conflict. He was also the coeditor of a nine-volume book series, Religion, Marriage, and Family.