8221; This is precisely the type of truth that Nietzsche attempts to put forth in his writing. The truth cannot be grounded in absolutes because that presupposes one particular meaning behind the concept, one particular interpretation. It is essentially to let oneself be dominated by one particular will. In his understanding, a will that wishes to be free necessarily shuns all absolutes and tries to look at a matter from as many perspectives as possible in order to gain its own. In an effect, truth is like a sculpture – there’s no ‘right’ way to look at it. To properly appreciate it, we must look at it from as many angles as possible. Similarly, Nietzsche claims to be “too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer” (236). Thus he is against the reality/appearance dualism concept of his metaphysical contemporaries and predecessors such as Augustine, Descartes and Rousseau. For Nietzsche reality is appearance and there is nothing more to it than that. The reason people shun stark truth in exchange for a metaphysical answer is because it requires “the most powerful strength for action” (246). According to Nietzsche, in the present state, the slave morality is too embedded in one’s way of life to be able to face this truth easily. That is why “certainty drives one crazy” (246).
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