Perspectivism is a termed by Friedrich Nietzsche, which is the view that knowledge of a subject is inevitably partial and limited by the individual perspective from which it is viewed. Nietzsche is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers in the nineteenth century for his challenging of christianity and moral systems. This is a look at Nietzsche’s perspectivism and its quest for philosophical and epistemological truth.
I will be looking deeply into perspectivism and then finding its inevitable failings as a philosophical and epistemological system for truth. This will first part of this paper will deal with what perspectivism is and what it means as a system for truth. The latter half of this paper will mainly focus on …show more content…
We can understand the view as an attempt at saying that there is no objective truth, or truth that can be justified. Though saying this doesn 't automatically mean that perspectivism is synonymous with relativism. Nietzsche 's perspectivism has the element of of pragmatism along with some nihilism, so that what perspective is most beneficial to you is truth for. This is unlike relativism which is the view that there are no absolute truths, just what is true for a certain people is truth. For Nietzsche he uses the term "meaning" as a synonym for power. Nietzsche was very advocate of this view that fed into his anti-religious philosophy, nihilism. In his paper, Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche after being critical of philosophers’ faith in the existence of opposite values, he proposes that:
Whatever value might be attributed to truth, truthfulness, and selflessness, it could be possible that appearance, the will to deception, and craven self-interest should be accorded a higher and more fundamental value for all life. It could even be possible that whatever gives value to those good and honorable things has an incriminating link, bond, or tie to the very things that look like their evil opposites; perhaps they are even essentially the
I will be looking deeply into perspectivism and then finding its inevitable failings as a philosophical and epistemological system for truth. This will first part of this paper will deal with what perspectivism is and what it means as a system for truth. The latter half of this paper will mainly focus on …show more content…
We can understand the view as an attempt at saying that there is no objective truth, or truth that can be justified. Though saying this doesn 't automatically mean that perspectivism is synonymous with relativism. Nietzsche 's perspectivism has the element of of pragmatism along with some nihilism, so that what perspective is most beneficial to you is truth for. This is unlike relativism which is the view that there are no absolute truths, just what is true for a certain people is truth. For Nietzsche he uses the term "meaning" as a synonym for power. Nietzsche was very advocate of this view that fed into his anti-religious philosophy, nihilism. In his paper, Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche after being critical of philosophers’ faith in the existence of opposite values, he proposes that:
Whatever value might be attributed to truth, truthfulness, and selflessness, it could be possible that appearance, the will to deception, and craven self-interest should be accorded a higher and more fundamental value for all life. It could even be possible that whatever gives value to those good and honorable things has an incriminating link, bond, or tie to the very things that look like their evil opposites; perhaps they are even essentially the