Sunday, March 31, 2019

Perspectivism, Perception, Action

Insofar as Perspectivism is a model of Empirical perceptual experience, Subjects of experience are mutually radically alterior, i. e. absolutely inaccessible to one another, a condition often characterized as the 'problem of the existence of other selves'. Thus, when Zarathustra, in 'The Convalescent', describes another as an "afterworld", he might be expressing a commitment to Perspectivism that Nietzsche briefly makes explicit in Beyond Good and Evil #10.  However, such a concept of Perspectivism does not take into account the possibility that Perception is not autonomous, but is ingredient in Action.  On that basis, a Perspectivist Subject is not only a center of Perception, but also, and primarily, a center of Action.  Thus, while the mutual alteriority of two perceptual fields remain fixed, two fields of action can converge, e. g. in a collaborative project.  Likewise, while for Zarathustra, music may charm the listener into forgetting that alteriority, the Dionysian recognizes that the overcoming of alteriority is actual in dancing.  Regardless, if Nietzsche's aim is to promote a Morality that is a corrective to enfeebling conformism, it is unclear how a model of Experience, even if potentially Egoistic, that abstracts from Action conduces to it.

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