The contrast is between Nietzsche's "
perspectivism," in which competing "evaluations" joust endlessly with one another, and the "lie" of Machiavelli, which allows the deceptive prince to have the last word when closing a debate.
His topics are evolutionary epistemology and the critique of truth; pursuit of facts and interpretations: a contextual reading of Posthumous Fragments 1886-87, 7[60];
perspectivism and herd morality; many names for the same way of thinking; and a pragmatist conception of truth.
Second, a Nietzschean "
perspectivism" turned truth into a "point of view" and judged to be "true" that point of view that makes a being stronger, and "false" that which saddens or diminishes him.
Sartre's idea of nihilation, in Vicks's reading, refers to Nietzsche's idea of forgetfulness and
perspectivism in the essay "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" (1873).
After positioning hermeneutics as interpretation in a Nietzschean sense, Campanini adds the caveat that the resulting "
Perspectivism" is one of "pluralism, not relativism" (p.
In this paper, the author assesses recent claims in philosophy of science about scientific
perspectivism being compatible with realism.
Debating animism,
perspectivism and the construction of ontologies.
In "Amerindian
perspectivism", unlike Western naturalist monism, the foundation of the world is subjectivity itself: a generic background of "humanity" is dispersed throughout the real.
It follows that
perspectivism as an interpretation of the novel is rejected as emotionally destabilizing, cutting out the novel's guiding keel, while the Romantic high admiration for the protagonist is explicitly endorsed.
"Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian
Perspectivism." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" 4.3 (1998): 469-88.