Subject: re: no facts?
Date: Thu, 4 May 95 11:51:09 MDT
From: "Nathan Bauer" <njbauer-AT-acs.ucalgary.ca>


On May 3, after very nicely describing/explaining Nietzsche's
perspectivism, Eric D. Lindberg wrote:
"What I am not fully clear about is who Nietzsche's initial
audience was (ie. who thought that facts could provide
substantive truths?)."

I would suggest that the answer to your question is damn near
everyone:  Hegel and his ilk, the German metaphysicists, the
general Christian population, and the scientific community.
(Just read Stephen Hawking's A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME to see how
pervasive the belief in objective/absolute truth remains among
scientists.)

Nietzsche believed, quite correctly, that his perspectivism would
be strongly resisted by his contemporaries and successors.  Thus,
in BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL he noted:
"But who has the will to concern himself with such dangerous
maybes?  For that, one really has to wait for the advent of a new
species of philosophers, such as have somehow another and
converse taste and propensity from those we have known so far--
philosophers of the dangerous 'maybe' in every sense." (BGE, 2)

Bye all,
    Nathan Bauer (njbauer-AT-acs.ucalgary.ca)


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