perspectivism

Nietzsche is widely regarded as the originator of the philosophical stance known as "perspectivism," which claims that one's perceptions and judgments are never pure or immaculate, because they are always colored by the perspective one brings to the acts of perceiving and judging.

Robert D. Stolorow: Judge Sotomayor, Republican Inquisitors, and the Fallacy of Immaculate Perception 2009

The recognition that there are multiple valid viewpoints leads perhaps to "perspectivism" and compassion, sympathy, and empathy are all critical to that.

Max Stirner and the Problem of Compassion James Killus 2007

In Luther we encountered a perspectivism enjoined by virtue of being religious.

Post-Secular Conviviality 2008

Let me argue instead for a kind of Nietzschean perspectivism, which admits that the closest approach to truth we can make is to look at a question from a variety of perspectives, but also recognizes that some arguments are much stronger than others.

Head Shaking and the best Canadian Poem 2010

Romantic irony, and then in Nietzsche's perspectivism, agreements about truth did not overcome but preserved their perspectival origins.

Post-Secular Conviviality 2008

I consider however perspectivism a type of short-circuit of the theory of epistemology.

The Idea of Design in Nature: Science or Phenomenology? By Jakob Wolf William Harryman 2009

What is true regarding perspectivism is that no human knowledge is absolute but contingent upon certain premises.

The Idea of Design in Nature: Science or Phenomenology? By Jakob Wolf William Harryman 2009

[Weber 1917/1949, 10], which is often proposed as a solution by those sharing Weber's kind of methodological perspectivism.

Asthmatic 2009

At issue is the degree to which Western perspectivism -- following from the West's emphasis on individuality and style -- will be allowed to encroach upon received notions of idealism, which purportedly shun any expression of individual observation of reality.

Anis Shivani: The Best Books of the Decade 2009

Clearly, Judge Sotomayor's thoughtful, self-reflective perspectivism has little to do with any personal agenda or legal relativism.

Robert D. Stolorow: Judge Sotomayor, Republican Inquisitors, and the Fallacy of Immaculate Perception 2009