Friedrich Nietzsche

An outline of some significant events in Friedrich Nietzsche’s life forms the biographical part of this chapter. Nietzsche sees the world as constantly changing—becoming—and that the assumed unchanging “being” is actually artificially imposed on this ever-changing world. Moreover, there is no way we can come directly in touch with the objective world. What we have are only our interpretations of this world. Nietzsche’s “perspectivism” claims that we are only locked in our individual perspectives of this world; and so, there is no absolute and objective realm of values. We, urges Nietzsche, have to create our own values rather than blindly receive the values traditionally handed down to us. His inegalitarianism and the master morality and slave morality division receive a special treatment in the chapter.