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Originally Posted by Altair
Yes, you can say the Earth is a sphere and that lions are meat eaters. But we are are talking about the human context, our preferences, how we define something (like the ''ego'') etc. Perspectivism is not the same as relativism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectivism |
If I put it in a breath meditation context for the sake of illustration, no two people will feel the same thing, nor will a single person feel the same thing at different times. In this sense, or these senses, there is a perspective of perception, or we say 'we see things differently'. However, that being true, the perception, the qualia of the experience, does not require an interpretation or other secondary notion like opinion, reaction etc. In most cases we would interpret perceptions to make sense of and give meaning to our experiences, but these are secondary notions, that come after the fact, primarily based on past conditioning and accumulated learning.
In relation to 'ego', as Nietzsche was quoted: "
The "subject" is not something given, it is something added and invented and projected behind what there is.—Finally, is it necessary to posit an interpreter behind the interpretation? Even this is invention"