How many soul ladders do you have?

 perspective. The world is a text, not an interpretation & attitude.



We see things in a certain light and interpret the world. The world is revealed to us only in the light of biological, historical, cultural, linguistic, etc. Before the interpretation of the world, the world is unfolding before us as an interpretation, and we live the world interpreted to us, that is, as it appeared to us. In this respect, 'perspective-optics' is our way of life and condition.


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Nietzsche called Platonism a dogmatic philosophy that denies the 'perspective'. The world of ideas pursued by Plato is, so to speak, a world in which interpretation does not exist. Interpretation exists in our world because, in Platonic terms, 'this world' is neither completely dark nor bright enough. If it was completely dark, there would be no interpretation because you could not see anything, and if it was completely bright, there would be no interpretation because everyone would see one reality, one truth.


However, for Nietzsche, a universal eye, a universal illumination, does not exist. Such is the illusion of universalization, and the misunderstanding of eyes and lighting. All living things have certain eyes and see things under certain lights.


Frogs see the world through the inherent error of frog eyes. This is the virtue of the frog and is a condition for survival. Frogs live thanks to this perspective, and above all, live in the world grasped by this perspective. It is for this reason that Nietzsche called the 'perspective' as 'the fundamental condition of all life'.


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This interpretation is not unique to frogs. So are humans. When a natural scientist looks at nature and utters certain laws, the fact that he is under a certain perspective does not change. We can read the same phenomenon from a completely different perspective, or we can derive the same inevitable law from a different perspective. For, as Nietzsche put it, "This is an interpretation, not a text."


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Nietzsche does not stop at pointing out that each philosophy has its own perspective. What is more important in Nietzsche's perspective is the attitude toward the 'perspective'. In other words, it is important to know what attitude you take to various perspectives and how to affirm them. Nietzsche's valuation of the strong and the weak, the noble and the slave, etc. is not related to a specific perspective, but is related to the attitude and style of dealing with perspectives.


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Nietzsche's critique of Plato does not say that Plato's perspective is an error. Plato's attitude toward the 'perspective', that is, Plato's 'perspective on perspectives', was taken into question.


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How many different perspectives have you experienced?


How many soul ladders do you have?


How deep have you gone down and how high have you climbed?



It is a question that is a hundred times and a thousand times nobler than the question, 'What is truth?'

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