Monday, March 21, 2016

Perspectivism, Judgment, Sympathy

Perspectivism entails that every judgment is relative to a point of view.  But, as has been previously discussed, not all judgments are equal, since one can be more comprehensive than another.  It also follows that agreement per se has no objective value.  This is one reason why some Philosophers are suspicious of Sympathy, which is no more than an accord between two perspectives.  Nietzsche's critique of Pity, a response to Schopenhauer's ennoblement of it, expresses that suspicion forcefully--he likens it to succumbing to a disease, the effective treatment of which requires detachment, not sharing.

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