The View from Everywhere

These positions have dominated the debate over what our moral perspective ought to be, but they do not exhaust the possibilities. Notably absent from this debate is the other possible perspective, “The view from everywhere.” It is this view that I aim to defend here. The view from everywhere is both a rejection of the two alternative views and an attempt to incorporate their key virtues: namely, the goal of neutrality found in the view from nowhere, and the recognition of the importance of particular interests and desires found in the view from somewhere. It is because of this combination of their virtues that I will argue that the view from everywhere is in an epistemically superior position compared to the other choices of perspective.