NASARA JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

This paper makes three pungent points. Firstly,is a contention that Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of perspectivism is, contrary to the popular interpretation of being nihilistic, rather inter-subjectivist in theory and praxis. Second is that the inter-subjectivist undertones in Nietzsche's philosophy allows for dialectic interplays and reasoned interlocution amongst diverse perspectives and, in the process, integrates their respective normative frameworks towards an intricate and coherent value system. And thirdly projection of an inclusivist social developmental trajectory embedded by the unified and integrated normative value system resulting ultimately from radical yet intersubjectivist notion of perspectivism upon which Nietzsche's metaethical and existentialist theorizations were structured. Such an expository analysis on the notion of perspectivism in Nietzsche's philosophy becomes imperative in understanding the transition from systematic and schematic philosophical systems with abstract, rationalist, universalist, objectivist and absolutist undercurrents which consign the human person to mere symbolic roles to a philosophical system which interprets the human experiences in the world in such a manner that affirms his concrete beingness, individuality and problematic existence. Nietzsche's aphoristic philosophy becomes apt here due to its inherent anti-systematism, as it projects spontaneity in the human's attempt to capture the authentic concerns of his concrete beingness and problematic existence. How then did Nietzsche traverse the problematics of solipsism likely to emerge from the embedded relativism, subjectivism and individualism in his perspectivism? This essay gives a succinct analysis of this.

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