The complete truth about being a human being is often falsified or at least partially obscured by a young child’s subjective experience. A person has to grow as a moral self in order to transcend this childlike subjectivity and primitive narcissism. He must begin to take a view of the world that is conditioned by an internal discipline of the passions and a “receptivity to teaching [and] … willingness to accept advice.”9 It is certainly what Pinocchio’s pilgrimage toward maturity is about.
