"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.