By Richard Schacht
Few philosophers were as greatly misunderstood as Nietzsche. His detractors and fans alike have frequently essentially misinterpreted him, distorting his perspectives and intentions and criticizing or celebrating him for purposes faraway from the perspectives he truly held. Now Nietzsche assesses his position in eu suggestion, concentrating upon his writings within the final decade of his efficient existence.
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It may not be immediately apparent what these reasons might be; but even so, his basic point would seem to be well taken. Nietzsche further considers philosophers often to be ‘prejudiced’ in an even deeper respect: they are committed in advance to certain positions and views, which they profess to arrive at by disinterested 23 PHILOSOPHERS AND PHILOSOPHY inquiry. Thus they act as ‘wily spokesmen for their prejudices which they baptize “truths,” ’ though they may be ‘very far from having the courage of conscience that admits this, precisely this, to itself’ (BGE 5).
How are our basic evaluative intuitions and normative attitudes to be regarded? What is the status of the moral theories propounded by various moral thinkers? What value do prevailing ‘values’ themselves possess? It is above all to questions such as these that Nietzsche considers it imperative for philosophers to address themselves. And he takes this task to be complicated by the fact that there is nothing pertaining to the objects of inquiry in each case which may be considered unproblematical.
II Nietzsche does take the general position that ‘it is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against’ (WP 481). ,’ is ‘our affects’ (WP 254). As shall be seen, moreover, he both considers the ‘drives’ and ‘affects’ finding expression in interpretations to be quite various, and denies that anything on the order of ‘a “drive to knowledge” ’ numbers among them (BGE 6). And he further holds that, at least as a rule, the kinds of interpretations to which they give rise are strongly colored by them, and so have a more or less distortedly perspectival character.
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