English Dictionary

age of reason

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 語頭大文字

(Roman Catholicism) Seven years of age, at which age a person is morally liable for the sins that he or she commits.

日本語の意味

(ローマ・カトリックの文脈で用いられる表現) 道徳的・倫理的責任を問われる年齢、通常は7歳とされる年齢のこと。 / 一般的には、子どもが理性や判断力を獲得し、自分の行為に対して責任を負えるとされる年齢（7歳）を指す場合がある。

According to the parish catechism, the age of reason is when a child, typically around seven, becomes morally accountable for sins.

教区の教理書によれば、子どもは通常、およそ7歳のころから犯した罪に道徳的責任を負うとされています。

意味（1）

(Roman Catholicism) Seven years of age, at which age a person is morally liable for the sins that he or she commits.

Book 1: Reason alone teaches us to know good and bad. . . . Before the age of reason we do good and bad without knowing it, and there is no morality in our actions. . . . A child wants to upset everything he sees; he smashes, breaks everything he can reach. Book 4: We hold that no child who dies before the age of reason will be deprived of eternal happiness. . . . The whole difference I see here between you and me is that you claim that children have this capacity [i.e., to recognize the divinity] at seven, and I do not even accord it to them at fifteen.

意味（2）

(usually capitalized) The historical period when philosophy, science, and social thought were associated with the principles of rationalism and the celebration of the achievements of human reason, often considered to be centered in the 18th century.

ages of reason （ plural ）