[...]There is only a seeing from a perspective, only a "knowing" from a perspective, and the more emotions we express over a thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we train on the same thing, the more complete will be our "idea" of that thing, our "objectivity."[...]
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, III-12
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What I want to eventually do is build an online transcendental perspectivist* community, with an inbuilt, revisable, mechanism to exploit consensus and dissension in order to make the dialectical process as explicit, dynamic, and fruitful, as possible; a place that'll encourage people to express and develop their self-derived sense of purpose, whatever that may be, and to cooperate and compete with others' sense of purpose, for the greater good of the individual, community, and beyond.
What I want to do now is assemble a team that is interesting in thinking about the best ways to build such a community, where team members cooperate and compete with each other's vision of the best way to go about that. This team would organize itself according to rules it sets for itself, and one of its main objectives is to refine those set of rules, and once adequately refined, those rules will become the inbuilt mechanism of our website... ideally, at least, or something like this... I guess if we are able to believe in the plan we have a decent chance of making it a reality.
Anyone interested? have any questions or comments?
*Transcendental Perspectivism challenges Nietzsche's claim that there are no absolute truths while fully accepting his observation that all truth can only be known in the context of one's own perception. This is accomplished through an appreciation of the emotional relationship between two perceptions (the "perceiver" and the "other").
-wikipedia: transcendental perspectivism
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