Are you good/bad because (one of) your parents was good/bad. To what extent would you say this is true. I know this is going to turn out to be routine nature vs nurture debate..but all the same..i'd like to know what you think.
2007-03-07 02:02:21 · 8 answers · asked by gopikap 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
no, you act according to what you have learned to value. You might have learned to value abuse or drama or other non-flourishing human foibles.
2007-03-07 02:14:45 · answer #1 · answered by Real Friend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it might be a mixture of the two. What our parents are going through at the time of our conception and birth can definitely shape us, but so can the events that we witness throughout our lives. There are people that start out good and later become bad and you have others that never seem to get close to knowing what good is. For every person though there is a different circumstance. What was the pregnancy like, what did the parents expose the fetus to, how was the bay treated, what was the childhood like, any siblings, what was school like? There are any number of incidents, thoughts and feelings that in any combination can alter the result. An incident that one person can let go of, might linger in the thoughts of another and cause them to one day go over the edge.
2007-03-07 10:36:17 · answer #2 · answered by jigsawinc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nature and nurture do have a large part, but a psychietrist named Victor Frankl put it there is another determining factor and that is ones own mind. All the influences of nature and nurture must be filtered through the mind. That's how you can have someone who is at the low that can pull themselves up and beat their nature and nurture as in the case of Pursuit of Happiness. You can also have Cain who killed his brother out of petty jealousy.
2007-03-07 10:17:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
goodness is a spiritual abstract and genetic is pathological .( Plato diversion )
You mean metaphysically ( Aristotle) ... mind and body as one , it means
One can and does learn habits of goodness by being around them ( thus parents) and adopt their personality . One has the potential to be good
Christ was asked by a lawyer and his son how can we be a s good as you . They always read the ten commandments but are
not good like Christ is good .
Christ answered saying God is only good ,sell everything you have and give it to the poor and foll low me .
Meaning Jesus is not good his father his ,and God is a hallow name ( void of material things) and by selling the material things and giving it to the poor you will be good .
Pathologically some athletes are good though their children are not .
2007-03-07 10:26:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I think history shows otherwise. Again and again a really good man's son has turned out to be a rotter.
2007-03-07 11:00:34 · answer #5 · answered by Elizabeth Howard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think yes but not always ,becouse not just the genatics control you ,the enviroment has the biggest effect of ur behavior
2007-03-07 10:19:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It is merely not so. My mother is living proof of this.
2007-03-07 12:24:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, its learning and motivation.
2007-03-09 11:50:56 · answer #8 · answered by wheew 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋