Full Idea
Valuations are innate (despite Locke!), inherited.
Gist of Idea
Values are innate and inherited
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 01[21])
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.55
A Reaction
This would conform with Charles Taylor's views (e.g. Idea 4002). But how are we sheep ever going to fall in with the values of our Superman when he arrives, if we are stuck with our own innate values?
Related Idea
Idea 4002 My aim is to map the connections between our sense of self and our moral understanding [Taylor,C]