Single Idea 24083

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism]

Full Idea

I think today we are at least far removed from the ridiculous immodesty of decreeing from our corner that one is permitted to have perspectives only from this corner.

Gist of Idea

It would be absurd to say we are only permitted our own single perspective

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay (Joyful) Science [1882], §374)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Joyful Science, and 1881-82 fragments (v 6)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2023], p.252


A Reaction

He goes on to speculate about the possibility of infinite perspectives, most of them unknowable to us. But Nietzsche was not a simple relativism. The obvious concept needed to accompany a many-perspectives view is consensus.

Related Idea

Idea 24084 Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity [Nietzsche]