Matt Fradd

But I wouldn't say, properly speaking, that perspectivism is a philosophy because a philosophy gives reasons for things.

Nietzsche just asserted perspectivism.

He just asserted that there isn't any reality.

There are only perspectives on reality.

I suppose you could put it that way, but I think G.K.

Chesterton made an interesting remark which bears on this.

He said, you know, I might say, well, this is an Eastern perspective on the house.

This is a Western perspective on the house.

Yes, but those are perspectives on the house.

There has to be the house there to have perspectives on them.

And so to say there are different perspectives doesn't in itself imply that there's no house there.

So we want to say, what is the most comprehensive perspective?

Can I take account of this perspective and this perspective so that I can understand what is the house?

Now, in our case, that means things like, what is a human life about?

Is there a God?

How should I live?

These questions don't disappear just because you say, oh, well, I've got a perspective on things.

And I think he's just overlooking that completely.

Oh, reading Nietzsche just about destroyed me.

He himself had concluded that once you figure it out, there's nothing left but either to laugh or be silent.