our-moral-intuitions-are-an-inheritance

# Our moral intuitions are an inheritance That every person has equal worth, that the weak deserve protection, that power is suspect: this feels like plain human nature, and it is not. It is a contingent inheritance, carried in a civilisation's marrow long after the faith that bore it has thinned, invisible because it is everywhere. But an inheritance is always an inheritance of something. What was handed down is not a value conjured from nothing; it is the learned sight of a real interdependence, a people trained over centuries to honour what holds them. And a sight no longer practised can be lost. Related: [[as-a-man-is-so-he-sees]], [[you-cannot-believe-your-way-back-to-the-sacred]], [[relational-capacities-are-a-better-category-than-morality]], [[the-soul-becomes-what-it-attends-to]]