take: the structure of the nuclear family as an authority parallels monotheism; the two are inextricable if so, then nuclear family : monotheism :: institutional/governmental child-rearing : ???
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Replying to @simpolism
there were many nuclear families before Christ tho (???)
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Replying to @simpolism
ok durr yes but strong nuclear families seemed to be the norm in say pre-Christian Rome and China even among pagans
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I do not know enough about their pedagogical/authoritative institutions to have a response.
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Replying to @simpolism
Confucius used nuclear familial relationships as a model for ideal institutions, the Romans to a lesser extent ("pater patriae") but had extremely strong institutional support for (patriarchal) families until the mid empire, eg see pater potestas
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Did he act as a pedagogical or day-to-day authority in his childrens' life, though? There is a distinction between a legally-granted but otherwise psychologically absent authority and the child's internalization of phenomenological authority.
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Replying to @simpolism
Depends on the family My hunch is that paternal involvement was more present in small households than aristocratic where tutors and slaves handled many aspects of childrearing but the authority of the father would've been manifest in either case
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I would be interested to know the spiritual/religious phenomenological differences between households of various sizes/organizational types.
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You've pretty much exhausted my knowledge but someone must have written about this extensively and it's probably a rich vein for this line of thought
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