Nietzsche 4

[koganbot]

According to Nietzsche, if I'm reading him right, Plato stood truth on its head by denying perspective. But I think it's a mistake for Nietzsche to use the word "perspective," it's a residual from Kantianism. I can believe that the earth rotates around the sun and I also can believe that the sun rises in the east and in certain circumstances that

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[koganbot]

which carries a freight of implication, when it comes to perspective, that our (sightline) perspectives aren't so far from one another, that with a bit of moving around and changing places, the differences can be reconciled

I don't think "one man one vote" implies anything of the sort.* In any event, I don't believe that all differences can necessarily be reconciled. ("Reconciled" is an ambiguous word. Creationists can become reconciled to the fact that Darwin is getting taught in the school, and can decide that there are other more important battles, while still believing that Darwinism is wrong.) I don't see where Real Punks Don't Wear Black, for example, would give a reader the impression that "differences can be reconciled."

[Give a thought to Kuhn's notion of paradigm shift. In a paradigm shift, the old paradigm isn't reconciled with the new; rather, it gets wiped out, and the new takes over.]

*And as I've been saying, it isn't just our sightlines that are at odds, it's our activities, our forms of life. In some instances, a pair of irreconcilable forms of life can nonetheless coexist, if they don't impinge on each other; or one or the other or both can be restricted so that they don't impinge on one another. But in other instances they do battle, and eventually one gets defeated and disappears; or the battle remains ongoing.