Let me step in your shoes.

The phrase to step inside someone else's shoes is commonly understood by most English speakers. It has many different variations but all generally mean to look at something from another person's perspective. In my experience this usually gets brought up in an argument when someone is trying to convince another person that they are right. But my question is how can you be right if it is totally based upon your perspective?

Look at this picture. Do you see a young lady or an old woman? I see a young lady. Does that mean if you see an old woman you are wrong? Maybe, it would probably depend on you perspective.

Bringing perspective into discussions seems to take the absolutes out of the solution. The entire thing becomes more subjective and right or wrong is based off of whether or not your personal perspective aligns with that viewpoint. This is called perspectivism.

This idea was proposed by Friedrich Nietzsche. He lived in second half of the 19th century and wrote and proposed ideas during the Modernism era. His works cover many topics but some of the most interesting ones are in the field of morality and moral thinking. In his book On the Genealogy of Morals he explores the evolution of morals and proposes ideas of where they came from. He makes the point that moral behavior evolved from certain social situation and that it is impossible to reach any absolute moral truth because a persons morals are based off of their own situation, or in other words their own perspective.

So what do you think? Is truth really just based off someones perspective?