31: Creators and Self-Legislators (III: The Philosopher)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Is There Any Absolute Perspective in Nietzsche?
Roxanne Jones: If we're going with this relativistic, perspectival approach, which Nietzsche is, that means there's no absolute perspective. And so perhaps with just our mode of thinking in these European languages and maybe probably most languages actually, this idea of opposites and contradictions may actually obscure things from us rather than help us understand the world better. Maybe it's just the fact that our linguistic categories create an apparent contradiction when Friedrich Nietzsche reveals that truth seeking is not what drives philosophy. But here he uses the example of Spinoza and goes on to write also and beyond good and evil aphroism five; consider the hocus pocus of mathematical form with which Spino
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