There can not be one universal explanation or definition of the world around us. There can not be a morality universal to all. No set guidelines for how to behave. There is no starting point for thinking. No suggestions for what to read and in what order. No instructions on what to think and how to think it. Thought that is exactly how the world seems to work. A list of instructions for doing all of the above.
We are programmed to instinctively absorb information - or to go out seeking it - from our environment. Its mostly an automatic mechanism and usually that information is internalized for the purpose of utility that wither resembles most our individual natural instincts (virtues) or we've acquired them thought habit.

It does us benefit to keep in mind that our reasoning faculties are relatively new developments in our evolution. And perhaps the reasons they were allowed to evolve by the great evolutionary scheme was to serve the curiosity drive - substantiating our learning instinct for better genetic fitness- and even then on a very short leash. Our instinctual animal behavior is very efficient - millions of years of succesful breeding and the dominance of the planet has proved that so far- but our newly evolved conceptual system at many points seeks to experiment against the basic evolutionary guidelines but perhaps that is the requirement or rather the cost of consciousness.