OF A GOLDEN AGE

for my final paper for philosophy, i am studying Friedrich Nietzsche and one of his primary standalone contributions to philosophy: perspectivism. especially after spending a semester studying the self-aware and willingly contradictory transcendentalists, along with plays-all-the-sides Soren Kierkegaard, perspectivism is a beautiful intellectual capstone for my studies for the last four months. i have loved Nietzsche’s writing for its eloquence and literary quality since we read it as part of English 205 (intro to creative writing) class, which was the first English class i took — back when i was still planning to be a math major, a dream whose abandonment i realize more and more was a really prudent choice.

perspectivism is tremendous, though. i really love it. basically, the only way to define what we call “objectivity” is as the combination of all possible perspectives on anything. more importantly, there is no set of “KNOWLEDGE” sitting somewhere waiting to be tapped into, which is how most philosophers have thought of the human pursuit of knowledge. we define the world through our different perspectives.

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