Is All Morality Based on Models of the Family?

Answer 1

No. I asked myself the this question: what is the ultimate need and reason to be moral because i needed a strongest foundation if i were to be a moral person at all.

Paranthesis: A very basic and general ideea is that morality resides on reason... (needless to say i consider reason the quintesence of everything overloading it with the property of the most basic building brick of anything in existance... or non existance.

Answer: simple interest; the most succesfull men are the ones that acieve the wisdom to see his interest and see that morality works in his interest(in society of course because its populated by similar conscious beeings :)

Morality began i believe in this manner and got reinforced in a more abstract manner in the purpose of atracting lesser beeings to its side. And yes morality is transmited by model too and primarely i believe it since at earlier ages humans aren't exactly geniouses.

I got another simple sounding theory: feed your brain with thruth(and beauty) and thats what it will generate for you... a theory very closely related with "you are what you eat" maybe even the explanation to this proverb. But what i meant is that beeing a moral person is beeing related to sincerity etc
My point is by beeing a moral person nto only do you maintain your path of evolvment but you selfeducate morally seeing what this virtue does for you directly on yur persona and indirectly to your position in society... so... education in its form of self education is a base for morality also. Morality is a sign of the spiritually developed character.

Answer 2

"Right is Right even if no-body's right.
Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong."
-Bishop Fulton Sheen

What a crock of ****.

ALL morals, ALL ethics, ALL taboos/mores/folkways are utterly arbitrary. There is no "divine" or "absolute" set of ethics and rules, and although I am not a christian I believe this still holds true for Christians. Their ten commandments will have no practical place in the society that follows ten thousand years from now. How can you "respect your mother and father" if you're cloned out of a test tube, or kill out of anger if everyone is immortal? And how can you hold the sabbath as a holy day if you live on an asteroid five hundred million miles from the international date line? Theoretically possible, so therefore must fall into consideration. Maybe God'll come down again and give us some new rules.

"Thou shalt not bifurcate your consciousness into more than three hundred instances"

"It is deemed unholy for a man to reproduce with his cloned and bewombed self unless he has a statistical chromosome difference of at least %15"

"Please don't alter the time line so that Jesus was rescued pre-mortem from the cross. I did that for a reason, you know. *wags finger warningly*"

Answer 3

NO morality is much larger then just the family model our ideas of morality are our own thoughts toward society. It takes our years of life and experiences to build our own vision of moral standing. We are effected by all we see and all were taught throughout our lives. So it would seem that Morality is a variable product of the larger Life model.

Answer 4

No. "Plato's Republic" and various writings by Frederick Nietszche presented moralities which, clashing in other respects, were similar in that they were not based on the family. Plato's morality was based on the state, and Niestszche's (sp!) was based on the absolute right of the strong to rule the weak. Christian morality is said to be based upon the family, yet Jesus said people must leave their families and all else, if need be, to follow him, for those who serve him are "mother and brethren", as his teaching was based not on "family values" but on universal love: Love God with all your heart, soul, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. And yet most modern societies recognize that strong families are a prerequisite for a strong society. In recognition of this, even the U.S.S.R. under Communism early abandoned the practice of encouraging children to rat on their parents.

Answer 5

Morality is based on survival of the individual and of the species.

Morals is a word most often used with the prefix "im" to identify the behavior of people with whom we disagree.

For those who claim morals come from the bible, perhaps they should actually read the bible.

Answer 6

No, morals originally came from the Bible.
That's why the Ten Commandments used to be hung up in schools and courthouses.

Answer 7

NO
utilitarianism is based upon the greatest good for the greatest number.
if it was better for society to disband families
(as is being done) and more benefited than were hurt, this philosophy would condone it.

Answer 8

Immorality is behavior where the consequences to others is ignored in favor of selfish gratification.....
Children are especially vulnerable to harm thus a strong family is needed to protect them and provide all their needs, because they are helpless & cannot meet their own needs.

Answer 9

Yes~ patriarchies, matriarchies and kinship systems.

Confuscianism
Feudalism
Religion
pre-industrial:
tribal, agricultural, horticultural, hunter-gatherer

No~ human as resource, worker, family is superfluous.
Industrial-capitalist
Colonial (slavery)
socialist

Answer 10

no its based on network TV. just watch some sit-coms and you will be able to appropriately judge how you are supposed to act.
(um that answer was a little sarcastic)