Saturday, June 15, 2013

Experiment, Art, Philosophy of the Future

The essence of the experimental process is the creation of exemplary data, of which the testing of an hypothesis is a special case.  But, the creation of exemplary data is equivalent to the generation of communicable novelty, which is why Dewey, the preeminent 'Experimentalist' Philosopher, equates Art and Experiment, in Art as Experience.  In contrast, while Nietzsche's "commanders" and "legislators", of #211 of Beyond Good and Evil, may "create values", they do not communicate them, i. e. they merely impose them, which may be why Nietzsche does not also characterize them as 'artists'.  So, if, as he suggests in #42, #44, and #210, Experimentalism is the 'Philosophy of the Future', these 'commanders' and 'legislators' are not necessarily the Philosophers of the Future.

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