Human Nature and Social values - Essay Example

- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid”.(from Nietzsches Daybreak, s.19, R.J. Hollingdale transl.) 4. The crisis of family values.

It is the phenomenon that spreads all over the world. The proof for this is the resolution of the World Family Congress in Prague that was held in 1997 and continues in Geneva in 1999. Here the family crisis was discussed. It is worth mentioning that family crisis is reflected on many spheres of life of any society. Family is the main social institute and guarantee for the moral values. It is a fact that many countries experienced Cultural Revolution, materialism and sexual revolution that caused the discrimination of some aesthetic morals.

Then the hedonistic societies were formed. As a result such society gets extramarital relationships, abortions, and unwed mothers. (Smith, 1990) There is a tendency that many young people pay more attention to their work now and they are not family-oriented. Nevertheless it is very difficult to judge as it was mentioned above. Probably now, when people have a special way of life and have firm goals they will be more successful and will not have any historical mistakes in future. (Reamer, 1999) “What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good.

The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come