Single Idea 7147

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics]

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]