Friday, November 2, 2012

Are there really no facts, only interpretations?


"There are no facts, only interpretations."

  Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was increasingly and thoroughly convinced that the world is driven by cosmic will and not that of reason... He also believed we have no access to absolute truth and that there are not facts, only interpretations. He goes on in his writings to say that no one person will have the absolute truth; facts are all merely their perspective. Nietzsche was not the first to de-couple morality from its divine sanction Aka “god is dead”. The line points to the western world’s reliance on religion as a moral compass and source of meaning. When God is dead we don’t have any absolutes, what regulates us in immanent life are the thoughts and perspectives we manage to produce. This godless universe is a scene where humans must project their own meanings into the act. Nietzsche's idea behind moral prescriptions lies nothing but mans “will to power” and to undermine a higher authority. Nietzsche's rebellion was a way of saying that no great metaphysical forces governed human life and created a framework for meaning, every individual faced the possibly absurdity of existence alone.

To me his theories had been offered as justifications for all kinds of moral sensibilities. If you’re on a path on which one attempts to overcome a seemingly limited or restricted belief systems…enjoy your tread into darkness.