Perspectivism
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"In so far as the word "knowledge" has any meaning, the world is knowable; but it is interpretable otherwise, it has no meaning behind it, but countless meanings.—"Perspectivism." It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all the other drives to accept as a norm." -- The Will to Power, Friedrich Nietzsche; trans. Walter Kaufmann |
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Perspectivism is the philosophical view developed by Friedrich Nietzsche that all ideations take place from particular perspectives. This means that there are many possible conceptual schemes, or perspectives in which judgment of truth or value can be made. This implies that no way of seeing the world can be taken as definitively "true", but does not necessarily entail that all perspectives are equally valid.
See also
- Anekantavada, a fundamental doctrine of Jainism setting forth a pluralistic metaphysics
- Conceptual framework
- Consilience, the unity of knowledge
- Constructivist epistemology
- Eclecticism
- Empathy
- Fallibilism
- Intersubjectivity
- Metaphilosophy
- Moral nihilism
- Moral skepticism
- Multiperspectivalism, a current in Calvinist epistemology
- Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- Relativism
- Rhizome (philosophy)
- Truth is Subjectivity, a concept on subjectivity by Søren Kierkegaard
- Transcendental perspectivism
- Value pluralism