I actually know the quote! I didn't like that movie though.
No facts?
How about the Tigers have lost six games to the Royals and White Sox to start the season 0-6? That's not a fact? Please tell me it's not, and tell me how to start interpreting victories. =)
I don't necessarily agree with Neitzsche, but I'll play devil's advocate...
Neitzsche's quote is a summation of his philosophical viewpoint called perspectivism. (A branch of relativism)
I can't say a whole lot about perspectivism because I don't know much about it, but I can summarize generally the relativist arguement against objective truth, which usually goes something like this:
Everyone experiences the world through his senses. Our senses are notoriously unreliable. Mirages, phantom limbs, hallucinations, etc. And even if that weren't the case, we cannot definitively prove that our sense data matches the "real" data anyway.
It may be the case that all humans are prisoners in The Matrix and what we call reality is just a computer simulation. In that case, no baseball games have ever actually been played. Or (to use Descartes) a great demon may be manipulating our senses, so that while we think that Tiger's are 0-6, they are actually undefeated.
But from the little I know about perspectivism and Nietzsche, it sounds like Nietzsche was an asshole and his perspectivism led him to a dark and nihilistic worldview. (The whole "God is dead" quote and everything)
And although I think that it is possible he was correct, insofar as to say that I can't prove anything that I believe anymore than he could (and I don't even really know if I'm characterizing him correctly), I believe in a meaningful universe. I'm on the whole "unity and peace" thing right now, and Nietzsche seems to think in terms of isolation and conflict.
I put up the quote because it makes me ponder, not because I agree with it.
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"Who is that? Nietzsche? So you stopped talking because of Friedrich Nietzsche? Far out."
-Frank, from Little Miss Sunshine
I actually know the quote! I didn't like that movie though.
No facts?
How about the Tigers have lost six games to the Royals and White Sox to start the season 0-6? That's not a fact? Please tell me it's not, and tell me how to start interpreting victories. =)
I don't necessarily agree with Neitzsche, but I'll play devil's advocate...
Neitzsche's quote is a summation of his philosophical viewpoint called perspectivism. (A branch of relativism)
I can't say a whole lot about perspectivism because I don't know much about it, but I can summarize generally the relativist arguement against objective truth, which usually goes something like this:
Everyone experiences the world through his senses. Our senses are notoriously unreliable. Mirages, phantom limbs, hallucinations, etc. And even if that weren't the case, we cannot definitively prove that our sense data matches the "real" data anyway.
It may be the case that all humans are prisoners in The Matrix and what we call reality is just a computer simulation. In that case, no baseball games have ever actually been played. Or (to use Descartes) a great demon may be manipulating our senses, so that while we think that Tiger's are 0-6, they are actually undefeated.
Bastard Demons...
Why don't you agree with Neitzsche? It sounds like perspectivism is something you would agree with.
I like the quote, and it's food for thought.
But from the little I know about perspectivism and Nietzsche, it sounds like Nietzsche was an asshole and his perspectivism led him to a dark and nihilistic worldview. (The whole "God is dead" quote and everything)
And although I think that it is possible he was correct, insofar as to say that I can't prove anything that I believe anymore than he could (and I don't even really know if I'm characterizing him correctly), I believe in a meaningful universe. I'm on the whole "unity and peace" thing right now, and Nietzsche seems to think in terms of isolation and conflict.
I put up the quote because it makes me ponder, not because I agree with it.
Well, I figured you put it up because you were pondering it, hence the title, "Something to Ponder".
I was just curious based on your explanation of perspectivism...it sounded like you would agree with a lot of it.
But you're right, food for thought.
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