Scheler’s Perspectivism and Life

摘要: My aim here is to explore the relevance of Scheler’s perspectivism theme life in his thought. From time I have reexamined theory under influence new forms relativism grouped catch-all term, “post-modernism.” What has struck me importance trying clarify and rethink this situation so that academic other public discourses we might avoid misconstruing or even demonizing various positions. position, while not always clear, constitutes an early effort think through problem relativism. The current vogue comes primarily, it would appear, from Nietzsche’s usage where represents equivalent a radical, skeptical (and for some, pernicious) Perspectivism opposed, by Nietzsche, single, changeless meaning “in-itself “ as repeated passages like following: “Is necessarily relative perspective?” “... (knowledge) no behind but countless meanings, — ‘perspectivism.’”1 implication are cut off reality our own perspective on it. It amplified linguistic positions which, e.g., truth described “army metaphors.” may indeed, Danto others pointed out, entail positive metaphysical position one describes world consisting points origin perspectives.