Single Idea 24084

[catalogued under 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity]

Full Idea

Wanting to know things as they are - that alone is the good inclination: not seeing ..with other eyes; that would be merely a change of place of egoistic seeing. …Practise at seeing with other eyes, and without human relationships, hence objectively!

Gist of Idea

Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 11[013])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Joyful Science, and 1881-82 fragments (v 6)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2023], p.309


A Reaction

That Nietzsche thinks we should try to see things objectively will come as a bit of a shock to those who have him catalogued among the relativists. It's clear from other writings that he thinks (rightly) that perfect objectivity is unattainable.

Related Idea

Idea 24083 It would be absurd to say we are only permitted our own single perspective [Nietzsche]