Oxford 244 pp 1750 April 1986 0 19 503668 9. We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest and consider the world from a vantage point that is in Nagels words nowhere in particular. Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way. The View from Nowhere systematically develops a series of ideas that were first advanced in Thomas Nagels earlier worksfor example. The View from Nowhere. We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest and consider the world from a vantage point that. Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way. Chapter 7 of the book the rest of what follows below tentatively considers freedom in terms of the general. The opening paragraphs of Nagels book The View from Nowhere the first five paragraphs below indicate the general distinction he proposes between an individuals subjective view of things or subjective standpoint as against an objective or external view of things that is nobodys in particular. The View From Nowhere.