Well, I think that's why I think that's not to overstate the problem, but I think almost every single problem in society today can be traced back to that.

What's up guys? Welcome to Five Minute Fatherhood. So there is a tomb of a book that Jeff and I both like. It's called Family and Civilization, written by Carl Zimmerman, who's a sociologist. And he from like the 1940s. Yeah, it's an old book, but it's like the book about all the different kinds of families that have existed throughout history. And so he said something that I don't know if I've ever heard before, and I even tried to find this quote and I couldn't find it. But so I wanted to tease this out. It's a, because I'm also really getting

into, you know, some more, to try to understand Greek philosophy, especially when it comes

a family better. But he says here, Aristotle's dictum that if children did not love their

parents and family members, they would love no one but themselves. And this is kind of like his quote.

And he goes on to say,

in the absence of strong external forces,

no human society could long exist

without the attachments basic to human society

that all arise and take their orientation from the human family.

So Zimmerman is saying that Aristotle is saying

that if a child doesn't learn to love

their mom and dad, then they will only love themselves. I found this really, really interesting

because our culture actually thinks that if a child only learns to love themselves, then

you've won as parents. But the Greeks were really worried about

this problem. And we really are, you know, it's interesting to read these studies. I've read

several sociologists that really have made the point that we're the first civilization

in history that's ever even come up with this theory, that to love yourself is ultimate, and

that that's the pathway to loving others. That's not the way the Bible talks about it. That's not

the way that, you know, you read about it in other societies. The way that most societies, and the way Aristotle is making this point, is that when

you, in the family, when you learn to love your family members, particularly the parents

and describing, but I think also the siblings, what that does is it helps you transcend

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