Editing Immaculate perception (section)

== Concept ==
The term was the title of one of Zarathustra's speeches, ''Von der unbefleckten Erkenntnis'', which literally means "On Immaculate Knowledge" or "On Immaculate Cognition.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Burnham|first=Douglas|title=Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-7486-4243-4|location=Edinburgh|pages=104}}</ref> [[Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)|Walter Kaufmann]] who translated it as "On Immaculate Perception"; other scholars{{Who|date=June 2021}} also prefer this translation because the main metaphor in the passage is visual perception.<ref name=":0" /> 

Nietzsche used immaculate perception in his interrogation of the myths of purity.<ref name=":4" /> According to the philosopher, perception is value-laden and ruled by interest;<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Stack|first=George J.|title=Nietzsche's Anthropic Circle: Man, Science, and Myth|publisher=University Rochester Press|year=2005|isbn=1-58046-191-3|location=Rochester, NY|pages=103}}</ref> in particular, it denies the important role that the will and desires of the perceiver have on every perception.<ref>Metcalfe, Michael. ''A Dancer’s Virtue: Human Life in Light of Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence''. Concept XXVIII, 2005. [http://www.publications.villanova.edu/Concept/2005/Dancer's%20Virtue.pdf]</ref>  

Nietzsche also used immaculate perception in his discussions of the [[Christianity|Christian]] view on [[Human sexuality|sexuality]]. He attacked the so-called detachment of the "pure perceivers" or ''Rein-Erkennenden'' (e.g. [[Immanuel Kant|Kantian]] view that pure judgments of what is beautiful must be detached), calling it [[voyeurism]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Higgins|first=Kathleen Marie|title=Nietzsche's Zarathustra|publisher=Lexington Books|year=2010|isbn=9780739120866|location=Lanham, MD|pages=80–81}}</ref> According to him, loving the Earth from afar for these pure-knowers is hypocritical because they too are earthly but there is shame and bad conscience in this love.<ref name=":4" />