What does Nietzsche recommend as a better approach to finding truth and knowledge?

towards truth, Nietzsche thinks we primarily ought to aim towards life-affirmation (BGE 1, §4: 3). According to Leiter, this is a reason why Nietzsche held the Greeks, especially the Presocratics, in such high regard: they knew the value of life was higher than the value of truth (Leiter 2002, 267-268).

What is so great about Nietzsche?

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights.

What is Nietzsche’s philosophy of morality?

Nietzsche’s moral philosophy is primarily critical in orientation: he attacks morality both for its commitment to untenable descriptive (metaphysical and empirical) claims about human agency, as well as for the deleterious impact of its distinctive norms and values on the flourishing of the highest types of human beings (Nietzsche’s “higher men”).

What does Nietzsche mean when he talks about truth?

The ‘weak’ interpretation is: when Nietzsche talks about truth, he means objective, platonic truth. And that truth is a perspective of a (weak, christian) will to power. But as you say, Nietzsche seems to mean something stronger. The ‘strong’ interpretation is: Nietzsche means truth in general is a perspective of will to power.

Is Nietzsche’s philosophy of value epistemic?

Because Nietzsche, however, is an anti-realist about value, he takes neither his positive vision, nor those aspects of his critique that depend upon it, to have any special epistemic status, a fact which helps explain his rhetoric and the circumspect character of his “esoteric” moralizing.

What is perfection according to Nietzsche?

Others (e.g., Magnus 1978) take Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence (the hallmark of life-affirmation, as noted above) as the criterion of a well-lived life: perfection is a matter of living in such a way that one is ready to gladly will the repetition of one’s life, in all its particulars, in to eternity.