Philosophical Dictionary
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On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense: Nietzsche, Perspectivism and the Ethics Meme
By Markus Uehleke
Is the dog a good boy? Depends on your ethical theory, says the meme. Nietzsche went further in 1873: truth itself is a mobile army of metaphors, and being truthful means lying by convention. He never published the essay, and his famous “no facts” line sits in a notebook. So did he hand us post-truth?