Nietzsche and Truth

In some of his writings, Nietzsche writes that false judgments are a condition for life, to renounce false judgments would be to renounce life; a philosophical crime Nietzsche does not forgive. But on the other hand, we read him writing about illusions that must be rid of and he is very critical at times as to destroy all dogmatic thinking. Something which, when I began reading Nietzsche made me very confused, does he or does he not care for truth? and what is truth to him? If he does not care for truth, in what sense is he a philosopher and not, say, a psychologist who promotes lies for the sake of a good life?

Reading more into it, I started to realize that what he meant is something deeper and a little more complex than what I thought, there was no contradiction anymore. Nietzsche's perspectivism was all I needed to understand. Perspectivism is the idea that there's no "thing in itself" awaiting to be discovered, as opposed to realism, perspectivism is the idea that there's only interpretation of reality, and nothing that can be viewed, as it were, from nowhere, by no one. That is to say; the interpreter determines what is interpreted, one can speak of forces that take hold of something and give it meaning, without it the thing is meaningless and cannot be comprehended by us, but with the force the thing is seen merely as an expression of the force, and to speak of the thing itself without a force dominating it is to speak of a nothing.

Now what he means by false judgments that mankind could not live without is the fact that they do not see something as their perspective, but they see it as if it were the thing in itself. Bad moral philosophy and bad metaphysics are why life didn't perish. In the Gay Science he writes that there was a time when humanity could have perished from good philosophy, and that those who thought rightly died too soon. Now is a time when we still need false judgments of morality to judge with, of a real and an apparent world, in short, of illusions that help us find "Goal" or "meaning" to life. Nietzsche does not think that truth is for everyone, he also wrote that how much truth a soul can take could be a measure of the strength of the soul, because truth can be destructive. But for the strong, for the masters, they might suffer from a little nausea, a little seasickness in the middle of the way but soon they will get beyond that phase, beyond nihilism to the Overman.

Conclusion: False judgments is a condition for lives, but truth is that special interpretation of the strong, of the masters and only they have the right to it. An interpretation that makes the strong and masters is only an interpretation and not absolute truth, but it is in the sense that it can create greatness that it is the only truth.

This is how I finally, after years of trying to make sense of it, got to understand my Nietzsche.