Nietzsche & Marx Question Our Reality
How Do We Really Know Truth?
Nietzsche’s ambitious project concerning morality and our place in the world continues. In my previous post on Nietzsche, I showed where Nietzsche believes our morality originates and why it is so difficult for us to trace it. In this post, I will focus on why Nietzsche (and Marx) believe that ‘truth’ is relative to our narratives about the world.
We cannot completely rely on memory in order to find something as universal as epistemic certainty or ‘objective morality.’
Some have called Nietzsche’s approach to epistemology (the study of knowledge; how we ‘know’ things to be ‘true’) “evolutionary epistemology,” that is a set of beliefs and values that can help promote survival in a competitive world.
Nietzsche argues that (1) perspective and (2) projection are key to our episteme. Perspective has a lot to do with our interpretation and conceptualization of language and our environments.
We exist in a historical place that must interpret events based on our experience and perception. However, Nietzsche does not argue that we are imprisoned to our perceptions as Christians were to slave morality, for example.
