“What is family?” is the question that I will explore. I suggest that a gestalt—the condition of something that cannot be explained in terms of its parts alone—can emerge from as few as two persons in a durable ethical space where there is responsibility. Neither needs to be related other than to be members of the human family. I use Theodore Sturgeon’s fictional More Than Human to show how this can be possible through his human gestalt. I then explore how this gestalt comes to be through Emmanuel Levinas’s responsibility ethos.