Sunday, September 22, 2013

Technical Reason, Experimental Reason, Fallibility

Just as Know-How is preceded by Learning-How, Experimental Reason, i. e. a process of deliberate trial-and-error, is implicated in Technical Reason.  Thus, insofar as Technical Reason is the source of the evaluation of human, all too human things, Experimental Reason is involved in it, as well.  But if passages such as #42 and #210 of Beyond Good and Evil, in which Nietzsche characterizes the 'philosophers of the future' as 'experimenters', are any indication, then Experimental Reason is the essence of that evaluation, thereby suggesting the concept of an historical scenario that is better developed by Dewey via Peirce than by him.  In that scenario, 'human, all too human' means 'fallible', which is conceived by traditional doctrines as a weakness, the correction of which they provide, e. g. the word of a deity, the knowledge of Forms, etc.  In contrast, Nietzsche's doctrine affirms Fallibility , and, instead, codifies it.  But, if so, then the interpretation of the Will to Power as a program of Domination, exemplified by the control freaks that he often praises, conceives it as no more than a surrogate for the traditional doctrines of Certainty that it presumes to overturn, thereby grouping it with them as a 'philosophy of the past'.  In that case, the 'philosophy of the future' is also beyond the Will to Power.

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