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Reasoning And Perspectivism: The Means To Freedom And Truth

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"Truth has had to be fought for every step of the way, almost everything else dear to our hearts,
on which our love and our trust in life depend, has had to be sacrificed to it.
Greatness of the soul is needed for it: the service of truth is the hardest service."#
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"Be more then man, or thou'rt lesse then an Ant"
- An Anatomy of the World, John Donne.#
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Reasoning and Perspectivism: The Means To Freedom and Truth
Throughout human history, the desire for freedom and a knowledge of truth has represented one of the most fundamental pursuits of mankind. However, despite beliefs to the contrary, it is the stipulation of this essay that the whole of mankind has been successful in achieving neither of these endeavors. In his book, The Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche suggests that in order to achieve freedom, we must first sacrifice our misplaced belief in truth: "‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted.' Here we have real freedom, for the notion of truth itself has been disposed of." # In other words, actual truth does not exist, and it is only once man is able to recognize this that he can realize freedom# from himself. Contrastingly, I# believe that only by first realizing our freedom may we be allowed to perceive the existence of truth. It is thus the intention of this essay to challenge Nietzsche's contention by demonstrating a means by which to achieve both freedom and truth within the framework of Nietzsche's own philosophy.
In order to achieve any understanding of actual truth, we must first achieve a number of foregoing conditions, to...