Interpretation#
Summary#
Nietzsche argues that what we take as objective facts or “texts” are always shaped by interpretation, revealing hidden motives and values of the interpreter. In section 22, he critiques physicists’ “laws of nature” as a democratic interpretation masking egalitarian biases, noting that opposing interpretations could read the same phenomena as expressions of Will to Power. Section 38 extends this to history, suggesting that noble posterity interprets past events so passionately that “the text has disappeared under the interpretation.”