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behavior and action. Nietzsche feels that knowledge properly understood is always interested; it always favors some particular perspective. Therefore, Nietzsche’s proposal to abdicate absolute truths in favor of relativism or perspectivism (to look at an object from various perspectives to become more objective) is radical to the instability of morality and meaning,
“There is only a perspectival seeing, only a perspectival “knowing”; and the more affects we allow to speak about a matter, the more eyes, different eyes, we know how to bring to bear on one and the same matter, that much more complete will our “concept” of this matter, our “objectivity” be.” 20
For Nietzsche, unlike Plato, absolute truth or absolute meaning is a fallacy: nothing is absolute, sacred or even true. To limit truth to one meaning is to be imprisoned. For him, multiplicity is freedom.21 Nietzsche further argues that popular morality “separates strength from the expression of strength,” in the same manner that people separate the lightning from the flash. Nietzsche says, “there is no ‘being’ behind the doing, effecting, becoming; ‘the doer’ is simply fabricated into the doing 3⁄4 the doing is everything.”22 I am what I do. Such a materialist: welcome to the rat race! Lastly, Nietzsche adds
20 Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morality. Trans. Maudemarie Clark and Alan J. Swensen. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1998. iii, 12, 25-29
21 Nietzsche influenced the infant terribles Deleuze and Guattari, proponents of the Rhizomatic Theory that opposes grand narratives and duality, proposing superficial multiplicity as a way of being. Deleuze & Guattari. Rizoma. Trad. José Vázquez y Umbelina Larraceleta. Valencia: Ediciones de Minuit, 1976.
22 Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morality. Trans. Maudemarie Clark and Alan J. Swensen. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1998. ii,12, 25
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