ABSTRACT
The ontological grounding of Nietzsche's perspectivism suggests that from the 'subject's' point of view, its perspective constitutes and exhausts what for it is the world. Nietzsche uses the term 'perspective' in two related ways distinguishing an epistemological perspective and evaluative perspectives. The two uses of perspective involve a differentiation between an inter-subjective epistemological perspective which determines how the world is known and specific evaluative perspectives which express judgements of value. Nietzsche's ontology of Becoming relates to his perspectivism in two ways: the notion of flux is used to deny intrinsic meaning and consequently to affirm the perspectival nature of all meaning and Becoming is held to be the ontological grounding of all perspectival interpretation. Perspectival interpretation is presented as a mode of being, a type of interaction in the world of flux, a mode of action and reaction to other perspectival centres.
