PHIL 115 Lecture Notes - Perspectivism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Political Philosophy
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Nietzsche has no theory of it, however, we have to regard thought as a personal expression: the will to power. Philosophy is a discipline, ideas a personal psychology; an expression of the person. Ideas stand for their author in the same way art does for artists. To descartes, i can be any rational being but not the physical person. Philosophy is a surreal thing to him. Nietzsche argues that empiricists and pragmatists have the same view to some extent. Philosophy is the personal confession of its author. If it is true that philosophy is personal, all knowledge is interpretation. All truth is contingent upon the speaker, the interests of the speaker. Moral knowledge serves us just as much as science. Knowledge is uncertain, contingent, and reliant on the perspective of the person. We can only know the particular aspect, which a particular point of view allows.
