Philosophy, Program, System

The concept, proposed here, of Philosophy as a Rule-Writing activity is derived, of course, from Nietzsche's projection of the Philosopher as a "Legislator".  One alternative, with a  perhaps more contemporary resonance, is a 'Programmer'.  In other words, a Philosophical Theory can be conceived as a 'Program'.  Now, while some Philosophers write only one or two Programs, e. g. Berkeley, more ambitions ones, notably Aristotle and Kant, produce several, interrelated Theories, i. e. Epistemology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Physics, etc.  So, in such cases, the product is a System.  Thus, the Language-Game of Philosophy can be termed 'System-Programming'.