This passage from Nietzsche is extremely close to Zahavi's understanding of Husserl's direct realism. I haven't emphasized entanglement yet, but to me the subject only makes sense within the same world that it perceives, so that seen and the seer are interdependent like a donut and donuthole, like up and down...let us guard against the snares of such contradictory concepts as 'pure reason', 'absolute spirituality', 'knowledge in itself': these always demand that we should think of an eye that is completely unthinkable, an eye turned in no particular direction, in which the active and interpreting forces, through which alone seeing becomes seeing something, are supposed to be lacking; these always demand of the eye an absurdity and a nonsense. There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective knowing; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity' be...
You and I can see the same object at the same time. We see the same object in the intentional sense (it's that one shared object we talk about), and yet this single object is given to us differently, as a function of our perspective in a generalized sense, not just in terms of spatial location, but also in terms of a 'prejudicial' position in 'personality space.' And of course I might be nearsighted and you might be colorblind.I offer what I hope is a solid perspectivism within a 'phenomenological direct realist' framework. — plaque flag
Your last statement, " ... 'seeking the truth' is best made sense of as seeking the best possible 'view' on the 'infinite object' of the world -- in terms of becoming the/an ideal viewer.", I find overflowing with impossibility and delusions of grandeur. — charles ferraro
Who the hell would know what "the best possible view" of anything was, even if it existed or they encountered it? — charles ferraro
Striving to have some kind of supreme, impossible, godlike perspective of the world? — charles ferraro
Instead of an old man in Colorado, I found "myself" in the mind of a woman living in a cabin in Ireland. The experience goes beyond words to express, and it lasted only a few brief moments. "I" looked out the window onto rolling green hills and everything was changed for me - I saw through another's eyes what I would not see through mine. — jgill
My conclusion: There are no common internal perspective foundations. Even common beliefs vary from person to person.
Two cents worth. — jgill
Sounds amazing and maybe scary — plaque flag
Not at all. Powerful and illuminating. Highly recommended. — jgill
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