Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 98 of 171
Nietzsche's perspectivism
Few associate Nietzsche with philosophy of mind per se, but his perspectivism is very similar to Kant’s idealism in that both hold that we cannot have knowledge of the objective world. Perspectivism even rejects the possibility of objective metaphysics outright. Like the relativistic brain argument from Miguel Nicolelis, perspectivism argues that there can be no God’s-eye view that perceives the Kantian concept of the “Ding an sich,” or the “thing in itself.” Knowledge is always situated in a specific human mind, from a particular vantage point, and is inherently subjective. There is no purely objective “view from nowhere.” In The Will to Power, Nietzsche writes: That things possess a constitution in themselves