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Single Idea 6579
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism
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Full Idea
Nietzsche recommends an extreme version of perspectivism in holding that a person's view of the world is a function of that person's life-affirming (Heraclitean) or life-denying (Parmenidean) personality.
Clarification
Heraclitus and Parmenides were early Greek philosophers
Gist of Idea
Nietzsche's perspectivism says our worldview depends on our personality
Source
report of Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay (Joyful) Science [1882]) by Robert Fogelin - Walking the Tightrope of Reason Ch.3
Book Ref
Fogelin,Robert: 'Walking the Tightrope of Reason' [OUP 2004], p.73
A Reaction
Fogelin recommends Nehamas on this topic. I am not convinced Nietzsche takes such an individual view as is implied here. See Idea 4420, for example. This view is in tune with Charles Taylor's view that our values shape our understanding of our selves.
Related Idea
Idea 4420
There is only 'perspective' seeing and knowing, and so the best objectivity is multiple points of view [Nietzsche]
The
22 ideas
with the same theme
[knowledge is entirely 'down to the individual']:
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431
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Health, feeding and rest are only made good by disease, hunger and weariness
[Heraclitus]
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462
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One vision is produced by both eyes
[Empedocles]
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3317
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You can only state the problem of the relative warmth of an object by agreeing on the underlying object
[Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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3313
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If my hot wind is your cold wind, then wind is neither hot nor cold, and so not as cold as itself
[Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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584
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If truth is relative it is relational, and concerns appearances relative to a situation
[Aristotle]
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585
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If relativism is individual, how can something look sweet and not taste it, or look different to our two eyes?
[Aristotle]
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2975
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That honey is sweet I do not affirm, but I agree that it appears so
[Timon]
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1878
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Water that seems lukewarm can seem very hot on inflamed skin
[Sext.Empiricus]
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1879
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Sickness is perfectly natural to the sick, so their natural perceptions should carry some weight
[Sext.Empiricus]
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1880
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Some actions seem shameful when sober but not when drunk
[Sext.Empiricus]
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1876
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If we enjoy different things, presumably we receive different impressions
[Sext.Empiricus]
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1877
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If we had no hearing or sight, we would assume no sound or sight exists, so there may be unsensed qualities
[Sext.Empiricus]
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3932
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A hot hand and a cold hand will have different experiences in the same tepid water
[Berkeley]
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7541
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Man never understands how anthropomorphic he is
[Goethe]
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6579
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Nietzsche's perspectivism says our worldview depends on our personality
[Nietzsche, by Fogelin]
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24083
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It would be absurd to say we are only permitted our own single perspective
[Nietzsche]
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7149
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Comprehending everything is impossible, because it abolishes perspectives
[Nietzsche]
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7169
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Is the perspectival part of the essence, or just a relation between beings?
[Nietzsche]
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7182
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'Perspectivism': the world has no meaning, but various interpretations give it countless meanings
[Nietzsche]
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7183
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'Subjectivity' is an interpretation, since subjects (and interpreters) are fictions
[Nietzsche]
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7133
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There are different eyes, so different 'truths', so there is no truth
[Nietzsche]
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6685
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'Subjectivism' is an extension of relativism from the social group to the individual
[Graham]
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