Full Idea
There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing", and the more different eyes we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity", be.
Gist of Idea
There is only 'perspective' seeing and knowing, and so the best objectivity is multiple points of view
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morals [1887], III.§12)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'On the Genealogy of Morals/ Ecce Homo', ed/tr. Kaufmann,Walter [Vintage 1969], p.119
A Reaction
A very perceptive statement of the most plausible and sophisticated version of relativism. It is hard to see how we could distinguish multiple viewpoints from pure objectivity.
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