Ukrainian translation by Vitaly Mudrakov from: Stefan, P. (2018). Sehen lernen. Nietzsche, Tramp und die neusten Medien. In Kotzur, M. (Hrsg). Wenn Argumente scheitern. Aufklärung in Zeiten des Populismus, 33-52. Münster: Mentis.
Starting from the scandal about Trump’s “creative” statements about the number of people who attended his inauguration ceremony, this essay discusses the difference between truth and fake news from a Nietzschean perspective. It could seem as if Nietzsche proposed a justification for people like Trump who have a “flexible” understanding of the relationship between truth and lie. It will be shown, however, that while Nietzsche indeed critiques a naïve understanding of objectivity, his perspectivism is connected to an ethics of self-improvement which implies striving for a better knowledge of things by learning to see it from different angles. People like Trump who is unwilling to take pivotal aspects of a situation into consideration, clearly fail to meet the standards of this ethics.
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