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Nietzsche's impact on Eastern philosophy

Nietzsche’s contribution to ethics has been profound, offering a cynical and original take on the approach to answering the abstract question of the nature of morality.
His theories stem predominantly from his views on perspectivism, the idea that all truths is “truth” within a particular perspective; an extreme case of pluralism. Therefore nietzsche viewed people as being composed of a myriad of perspectives, with no one view being any nearer truth than the next. He felt that our beliefs are never free from our environment, thus truths are relative to perspectives, which are historically and individually contingent. It is due to this that nietzsche was rarely interested in what was right, but rather in bringing ”the values of values themselves” into question. Where did the conceptions of right and wrong come from, what is good and evil? Nietzsche argued that these antithetical values are equally fictitious.


But why do we value such fictitious or fabricated values so ...

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