Nietzsche's philosophy and major works

Nietzsche's definition of truth is an accumulation of ideas that can be intrinsic to the individual and therefore an assimilation of fact and understanding. Truth can therefore be individual and independent from fact or reality. It can in short be called "my truth," by the individual and can still be considered the truth as this one individual seas and constructs it. The individual may be perpetrating what some would consider a "lie" and still be telling the truth, according to his or her own perception and creativity. One early example of this given by Nietzsche is the idea that many individuals will openly oppose war, and yet also support it when it occurs or at least allow its occurrence while actively pursuing a treaty of sorts. (143) the stop gap solution being that war will no tend until "truth" is determined, and as Nietzsche has pointed out this "truth" might be variable by source. To create or posses "truth" Nietzsche contends that humans must forget some facts and rearrange them in an order that makes sense for the current state of things.

Nietzsche does not attest that truth in the sense of a culmination of facts that come together to develop the concepts of what is real and what is not real, is not a fabulous goal. He in fact demonstrates that human's have an intrinsic drive to discover the truth, (146) yet he also stresses that in so doing many facts about what is true and what is symbol or dogma are lost. To Nietzsche there is a clear sense that dogmatic interpretation as well as the need for humans to universalize concepts, gives rise to symbolism or representative language, a must for communication and a must for assimilating, "truth" from untruth. "Whereas every metaphor standing for a sensuous perception is individual and unique and is therefore always able to escape classification, the great edifice of concepts exhibits…rigid regularity" (146) Humans are in short capable of discovering and retelling the "truth" only to the degree that they can communicate it, and this communication includes perception and redress according to the needs of the perceived needs of the environment which they inhabit. Nietzsche stresses that humanity cannot separate itself from the desire of a good impression and therefore truth must be seen as something that is independent and individual to each. In other words, life is a stage, and the truth we as individuals and even as nations, in the case of war and relations, we tell is specific to our ability to create a picture that accounts for both truth in a concrete sense and ignorance or forgetfulness and at the same time makes us look like we know what we are talking about

To Nietzsche the enigma is limited as the social purpose, in most cases overrides the fact that truth in a literal sense is obscured and bent by the prism of human understanding and achievement of acceptance. Individuals create a reality that meets their own needs and meet the perceived needs of others through a collective assimilation of known facts, made up facts and dogmatic beliefs, bet they applied or only perceived to be applied. In many ways this is how Nietzsche assimilates the idea that people are "artistically creative subjects." To Nietzsche the idea of truth is relative to the reality of how "truth" becomes a conscript of human communication and perception. "Insofar as the individual wishes to preserve himself in relation to other individuals, in the state of nature he mostly used his intellect for concealment and dissimulation." (143) to Nietzsche the only real reason why people really began to accept the idea of varied truths was to conform to living in groups, as apposed to fighting amongst each other for the same space and resources.