Objective Truth Because Of Perspective

In his book, Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche aggressively challenges conventional schools of thought dating back to the ancients. Philosophy, as we know it, began over two-thousand years ago in Athens with the birth of Socrates. Socrates introduced the practice of reasoning and dialectics—the art of discourse hoping to bring individuals closer to some universal truth—to an Athenian society that previously held aesthetics, not logic, as indicative of goodness. Socrates revolutionized life in Athens, and by extension, the Western tradition. His beliefs are found in works written centuries after his death. He is heralded as the “father of philosophy.”

Literature and real life show prime examples about how perspective can extremely shape the truth. Nothing but the Truth is a documentary novel that is about how Phillip gets suspended for humming The Star Spangled Banner. When analyzing the evidence, one can identify how the point of view can change the truth in life and books because of it is impossible to read minds, people may have different ideas of what happened, and no one knows if it is correct. First and foremost, no one knows what someone else is thinking. “A boy I like. Intelligent. With real potential” (Hadi 5). Phillip thinks Ms.Narwin hates his guts, but she just wants him to have ambition, which could be a scenario in real life. Secondly, people might intake some information that

In my opinion, some of the essential idea in Nietzsche’s “beyond good and evil” is his search for the truth. He believed everyone had the ability to explore truth in their own specific way. In Nietzsche’s “beyond good and evil” he also believes that self – preservation is not the main ambition of human beings but the fundamental creative force that motivates all creations is the “will to power”(122). Furthermore, Friedrich Nietzsche did not believe in the existence of God, to him, God was dead. God plays no vital role in our culture- except as a protector of the slaves morality, including the idea of equal worth of all persons (122).

He believes that knowledge has the ability to not take itself too seriously. Nietzsche is an advocate for uniting knowledge and play. He supposes that we create our values ourselves and do not discover them from nature or reason, as supposed by Plato. However, both philosophers believe that knowing your own ignorance and having a willingness to accept the fact that we are sometimes wrong and at fault is a vital step in creating the morals and values that we hold.

Although many people feel indifferent toward others due to their prejudice and lack of understanding, people with pure hearts possess a broad perspective that enables them to accept conventional behavior because their unbiased perspective allows them to understand others who they really are. Thomas Builds-the-Fire in “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” demonstrates how his pure spirit promotes tolerance toward the worsening conditions on the reservation. Given the talent of prophecy, Thomas is alienated by his clansmen because they are tired of listening to his stories. Because others reject him, Victor no longer considers Thomas as an intimate friend. Thus, when Victor needs help, he feels “embarrassed, but he thought that Thomas

In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche argues philosophy is a mere self-serving vanity on the part of historical philosophers. Their explanations and truth-seeking are only their deepest desires of how they wish things to have originated from. In this paper, I will try to explain what Nietzsche thought philosophers were doing when constructing their theories and why his argument is a good one.

Nietzsche makes his objective clear early in the first essay. He separates himself from particular English philosophers, by showing contrasts in their different ideals. He believes that they are utterly mistaken in their description of altruism. These English philosophers believed that altruistic acts were only seen as ‘good’ by those who receive benefits from them. Their thought, Nietzsche argues, is completely fabled. It speculates that altruism foreshadows value-judgments. According to Nietzsche, value-judgments originated from the prime value-creators .i.e. the common

Nietzsche does not share his point of view because he is an Atheist. He does not

Transition: As you can see, both main theories and types of truth play a role in leading to a definition of Truth as objective. Let’s review them again.

But he goes deeper and tries to determine the origin of truths. Morally, truth “is the duty to lie according to a fixed convention” (Nietzsche 4). But humans prefer rationality over morality. Rationally, to describe a truth would require clearly marked limits and a complete rewriting of existing laws and social constructs, all to create a more regulatory world where we could observe truth. On top of that, every person has his/her own conceptions of truth and lies. Thus, the definition of truth would vary greatly if put in discrete terms. To find the origin or even the definition of truth, Nietzsche proposes that we try to see the world from a bird’s, insect’s, or plant’s point of view. Unfortunately for us, we struggle to do

To Nietzsche, the idea of perspective is opposed to the claim that we are capable of knowing the truth. He believed

Nietzsche declaims, “they pose as having discovered and attained their real opinions through the self-evolution of a cold, pure, divinely unperturbed dialectic: while what happens at bottom is that a prejudice, a notion, an ‘inspiration,’ generally a desire of the heart sifted and made abstract, is defended by them with reasons sought after the event” (Beyond Good and Evil, which will be referred to as BGE, I.5). Thus, philosophical insights are not the universal claims to truth that philosophers have presented them as and wished them to be. The philosophy of an individual is precisely that, not a product “of a cold, pure, divinely unperturbed dialectic.”

The two main texts engage postmodern ideas through the themes and content of their stories. The postmodern idea of relative truth is the main concept that comes under fire, with its subsets (such as moral ambiguity and anti-absolutism) being engaged as well. In the Great Divorce, heaven is described in extremely concrete ways. Everything there is as hard as diamonds, while the people visiting from hell are ghostly and vapid. In these descriptions, Lewis makes a point of the absolute reality of heavenly things. Meanwhile, his descriptions of the ghosts and Grey Town symbolize the futileness of earthly matters. Lewis, in this way, makes a case for absolute truth. This directly attacks the postmodern idea of relative or subjective truth. Lewis also seems to make a claim that if there is in fact an absolute truth, then there must be some sense of absolute morality; there is good and evil in the world.

The perspective of the source is one of that can really fluctuate based on beliefs and cultures that have been brought up by an individual. The idea based on the source all depends on the circumstances that it is in. In some situations it will bring good things but in other’s, it will bring nothing but harm. All countries being able to be unrestricted and free to pursue it’s own goals can bring wealth and strengthen a country in all the good ways. However when this becomes to readily available to countries that are already well off, it can cause a hunger for power and greediness which will then avoid the whole purpose about what giving a country the freedom to grow and better itself without restrictions. If two countries benefit from this

Nietzsche introduced an idea of philosophy that was more than simply a rational groundwork of existence or as the pursuit of an absolute truth. Instead, he suggested that philosophy is something to be respected as a personal interpretation of life and all its faculties (morality, existentialism etc.) and that was – for him - focused on life affirmation. Furthermore, this thinking implies that philosophy is not a be all and end all answer to life’s questions; rather, it is merely a