Thursday, September 26, 2013

Future Values

Nietzsche's characterizations of 'philosophers of the future' as 'value-creators' and as 'experimenters' seems indeterminate in two respects.  First, he does not specify what those values might be, presumably because they would be the choices of individual creators.  Second, he does not address whether or not those creators would instantiate their choices.  Thus, he does not seem to consider that, simply by virtue of their efforts, regardless of the formulations that they produce, they might exemplify a departure from traditional values.  For, among the highest values of that tradition is Certainty, while, as has been previously discussed, Creativity and Experimentation involve Uncertainty equally.  So, whether or not he intends it, his projections of the 'philosophy of the future' are potentially more determinate than they seem, and, perhaps, are sufficiently so. 

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