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Michael Kupperburg's avatar

It seems like Nietzsche is trying to form something from an objective viewpoint, while philosophies are almost exclusively subject interpretations of how life should be lived or the way the universe is ordered. For myself, find it highly questionable that a pure neutral and objective viewpoint is totally possible. Some, like Socrates and perhaps Diogenes may have gotten close, but such a pure state of objectivity, seems at least to me, to be beyond the human mind and personality.

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Romaric Jannel's avatar

I agree with Nietzsche that we need to think about what influences us in our philosophical inquiry, but yes, pure objectivity is probably nothing more than an ideal. The questionable character of objectivity is also what led Husserl to talk about intersubjectivity!

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