Single Idea 7189

[catalogued under 9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects]

Full Idea

The subject alone is demonstrable: hypothesis - that there are only subjects - that 'object' is only a kind of effect of subject upon subject...a mode of the subject.

Gist of Idea

Maybe there are only subjects, and 'objects' result from relations between subjects

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 09[106])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.161


A Reaction

This is an ultimate implication of 'perspectivism'. Elsewhere, though, (Idea 7183) he challenges the ontological status of 'subjects', suggesting that even they are purely fictional. Nietzsche wanted to relativism everything, but kept clutching lifebelts.

Related Idea

Idea 7183 'Subjectivity' is an interpretation, since subjects (and interpreters) are fictions [Nietzsche]